Death of the Black-Haired Girl

By Robert Stone

Subjects: New england, fiction, Young women, fiction, New York Times reviewed, College teachers, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Married people, fiction

Description: In an elite New England college, Professor Steven Brookman embarks upon a careless affair with a brilliant but reckless student, Maud Stack. She is a young woman whose passions are not easily contained or curtailed, and is known as something of a firebrand on campus. As the stakes of their relationship prove higher than either one could have anticipated, their union seems destined to yield tragic and far-reaching consequences.