A Child's Night Dream

"A CHILD'S NIGHT DREAM is the first novel written by celebrated screenwriter/director/producer Oliver Stone, winner of three Oscars (for the screenplay of MIDNIGHT EXPRESS and as director of PLATOON and BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY), and whose films have earned 37 Academy Award nominations. First embarked on when Stone was 19, the novel lay becalmed inside a shoebox for 30 years until Stone took a deep breath and set sail once more. Graciously, he's invited us along as fellow voyagers, or voyeurs.

A CHILD'S NIGHT DREAM is the autobiographical/fictional story of young William Oliver Stone, whose neglectful haut monde mother made him a haunting promise one night long ago. A promise Stone must prove or dispel or run from or embed like a Cambodian dagger in his own flesh.

Torn between his estranged parents, Stone lives in two worlds. The world of ""Oliver"" is warm, carnal. Lust replaces love, and his mother has the ""...face of a growling meateater. Wolfess."" The world of ""William"" is cold, rigid, rigor mortis. Money replaces love, and his father unerringly hammers a stake through his son's heart, ""You can't be an individual in this world....""

A CHILD'S NIGHT DREAM is an extraordinary novel - poetic, painful, elemental, pounding to the demented rhythms of the sea and a young man's blood. In Stone's hands, language itself becomes an adventure ... (This novel) is an intensely moving experience.

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