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Stone Reader

2003, Movie, NR, 128 mins

Stone Reader: Review

Attention book worms: Mark Moskowitz's documentary is an unexpectedly warm valentine to the solitary joy of reading in an increasingly post-literate age. It's also a gripping mystery yarn involving obsession, a long-forgotten book and a shadowy author who appears to have vanished off the face of the Earth. The story began in 1972, when an 18-year-old Moskowitz read a glowing review of The Stones of Summer, the debut novel by a 23-year-old writer named Dow Mossman. Intrigu... read more leave a comment