Article: HIS SEASON IN THE SUN DOW MOSSMAN WROTE `THE STONES OF SUMMER' 31 YEARS AGO, BUT HIS BOOK TOUR HAS JUST BEGUN

CAMBRIDGE - Puffing a cigar, novelist Dow Mossman sits for an hour by the Charles River, talking about his long exile from the literary scene and his serendipitous rediscovery. "I don't think I've caught up with the reality of it yet," he says. "It's pretty unreal."

Mossman is 60. His only novel, "The Stones of Summer," was published in 1972 and then went out of print forever, or so he thought. Thirty-one years passed as he lived quietly in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. But now "The Stones of Summer" is in bookstores nationwide, republished by Barnes & Noble booksellers. Close to 100,000 copies are in print, and Mossman is touring the country, reading and signing books before large audiences.

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