Article: A Reader's Leisurely Pilgrimage In Search of a Vanished Book.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)

Byline: Andrew Sarris

Mark Moskowitz's Stone Reader is, quite simply, an unalloyed treasure for any viewer who has ever felt transformed by reading a good novel. The irony is that this film, with its technologically subversive passion for print literature in an age supposedly suspended somewhere in cyberspace, has been brought to the screen by a media person par excellence: a maker of television commercials.

The genesis of the film goes back 30 years to 1972, when Vietnam War protester Mark Moskowitz read John Seelye's rave review of a first novel, Stones of Summer by Dow Mussman. Mr. Moskowitz purchased the novel, anticipating that it would be a clarion ...

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