A tough, elegant, alarming novel. Stone writes superbly about the sea, about fear and loneliness, about life in extremis . . . In Outerbridge Reach, he has produced what I believe will come to be recognized as a quintessential novel of the Reagan era, along with Updike s Rabbit at Rest and Don DeLillo s Mao II John Banville, Guardian Stone has already written two of the best novels of the past...