G. Alexander Stone

G. Alexander Stone https://galexanderstone.com G. Alexander Stone Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:57:42 +0000 https://galexanderstone.com en Home Page https://galexanderstone.com/Home-Page Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:32:21 +0000 G. Alexander Stone https://galexanderstone.com/Home-Page <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/518335f2e351a7119ea17f65cfe797f17c7dbcd2e4bef149af1b63f16fa176ff/PICT0716.jpg" data-mid="20223381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/518335f2e351a7119ea17f65cfe797f17c7dbcd2e4bef149af1b63f16fa176ff/PICT0716.jpg" /> <img width="1160" height="773" width_o="1160" height_o="773" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc51fff140d202f49a36adcf09c1f598aa68d4f95745c19fd97d89b6efab436f/RJ.jpg" data-mid="21623535" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc51fff140d202f49a36adcf09c1f598aa68d4f95745c19fd97d89b6efab436f/RJ.jpg" /> <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f1ac6286860241b2fec3adc6f86bbb518fb62c8fd70ed16babd7f7dec0ab760/PICT0209.JPG" data-mid="20542703" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f1ac6286860241b2fec3adc6f86bbb518fb62c8fd70ed16babd7f7dec0ab760/PICT0209.JPG" /> "Origins are so arbitrary, but we can't escape." - from the debut novel Hold Back Flight The Confederados https://galexanderstone.com/The-Confederados Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:57:42 +0000 G. Alexander Stone https://galexanderstone.com/The-Confederados <img width="900" height="477" width_o="900" height_o="477" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39860d5508863540d1dee55d1e34f580d983f5286ef41c5cc81e05995c0bd5e7/confederados-vila-americana.jpg" data-mid="130376000" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/39860d5508863540d1dee55d1e34f580d983f5286ef41c5cc81e05995c0bd5e7/confederados-vila-americana.jpg" />     When Captain John Cardoso is approached by Lady Lucinda Curtis on the docks of New Orleans, the Confederacy is about to fall.  Desperate and mourning her son’s death, Lucinda begs him to ferry her family to Brazil.  Hard up from the Union blockade, Cardoso agrees under one condition: they cannot bring enslaved humans.  After some hesitation, she agrees.  It isn’t the only agreement she’ll go back on.  Battling plague, starvation, and an unexpected pregnancy, their odyssey from New Orleans to São Paulo explores a family and continent in flux. -- Inspired by the true story of the mass Confederate exodus to Brazil, THE CONFEDERADOS is a wry, lyrical account of emigration in a doomed attempt to avoid change.  Told through Cardoso’s letters, we are immersed in the secret world of Confederate slavers who seek to continue in Brazil’s hinterlands.  Their ruinous effect on local culture forces us to question: how did they get there?  And what remains of their presence? Hold Back Flight https://galexanderstone.com/Hold-Back-Flight-1 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:32:22 +0000 G. Alexander Stone https://galexanderstone.com/Hold-Back-Flight-1 <img width="2514" height="2670" width_o="2514" height_o="2670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0874637236309977bae9079acb0307606b18325fc67017494c4af7f42fae0536/GEOFF_roland2.jpg" data-mid="103244184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0874637236309977bae9079acb0307606b18325fc67017494c4af7f42fae0536/GEOFF_roland2.jpg" /> <img width="2712" height="2994" width_o="2712" height_o="2994" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b1d6a1372b47e10b2bb16225a8e9aafe303c2df8e22a1f9b16fd338dc8ebf9d/Noella-Photos.jpg" data-mid="103244192" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b1d6a1372b47e10b2bb16225a8e9aafe303c2df8e22a1f9b16fd338dc8ebf9d/Noella-Photos.jpg" /> <img width="1834" height="1828" width_o="1834" height_o="1828" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3579d92e72c62f800de6be9805df77d7ca135ec040b3eccbf063e17cc79851c8/GEOFF_michelle.jpg" data-mid="103244185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3579d92e72c62f800de6be9805df77d7ca135ec040b3eccbf063e17cc79851c8/GEOFF_michelle.jpg" />     When Dora Bittencourt says goodbye to Nick Cohen, she believes she’s returned to São Paulo for good.  For Nick, plagued by his Grandfather’s death and a crumbling family unwilling to discuss the past, Dora was the one bright spot.  Then Dora’s Grandmother delivers her own surprise...  Unbeknownst to them all, the ties that bind them run deeper than expected.   Thrown headfirst into the past, Dora and Nick must relive their Grandparents lives before the Great War.-- Inspired by interviews with survivors of the odyssey from Europe to Ellis Island to Brazil, HOLD BACK FLIGHT is a lyrical, family saga across three continents.  Told through letters and photographs, it portrays families wrestling with long-suppressed secrets.  Tapping into the myth of Apollo and Daphne, it forces us to ask the most essential questions: how did we get here?  What remains when we’re gone? HOLD BACK FLIGHT, is a 61,000-word novel that follows the survivors of the Jewish exodus from Europe to the Americas. Reviewed by Publishers Weekly’s Critics Report as an “engaging intergenerational take on the immigrant experience” whose “prose has strong rhythm and utilizes the epistolary form to great effect,” it utilizes nested, emigration stories to “create a strong sense of attachment in readers to each of their stories.”  Other Projects https://galexanderstone.com/Other-Projects Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:32:24 +0000 G. Alexander Stone https://galexanderstone.com/Other-Projects + in a near future G. Alexander Stone is currently at work on his next manuscript: THE LAND, an 80,000-word novel about the artist community founded by Black Mountain College alumni in the 1950’s, where he has lived the past three years.  <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b89fb395f722f773310e319c641204d1beb861cc6139de0dee5c1817f2494da3/PICT0133.JPG" data-mid="20140540" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b89fb395f722f773310e319c641204d1beb861cc6139de0dee5c1817f2494da3/PICT0133.JPG" /> About https://galexanderstone.com/About Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:32:27 +0000 G. Alexander Stone https://galexanderstone.com/About G. Alexander Stone, a writer who lived over a decade in Brazil (as well as a year in Europe and Africa), is interested in the untold stories that bridge the American continent.  A graduate of the University of Virginia under Ann Beattie, he is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.  Since committing full-time to writing, he's been awarded residencies and fellowships across the U.S., in Spain, Portugal and Brazil.  He currently lives between São Paulo, Brazil and the Hudson Valley, NY. ︎  g.alexanderstone@gmail.com -- webdesign: Bel Falleiros images: Bel Falleiros, personal and historical archives in Brazil and the U.S. <img width="1455" height="1700" width_o="1455" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80fd12aaf6dc6e77f01e86ae6c9190d54953386aa0215c1585f8ffe0af486304/GAlexanderStone.jpg" data-mid="20056902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80fd12aaf6dc6e77f01e86ae6c9190d54953386aa0215c1585f8ffe0af486304/GAlexanderStone.jpg" />