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Byline: Amanda Schurr Correspondent
As a college freshman, Mark Moskowitz picked up a copy of a debut novel based on a critic's recommendation. But he couldn't wrap his brain around the dense prose, and after some 20 pages, set the book down for a quarter of a century.
By the looks of his documentary, "Stone Reader," the text was worth the wait.
If only the filmmaker's own story was worth the running time. Moskowitz sets out on a literary goose chase to track down Dow Mossman, a one-hit wonder whose sole novel, "The Stones of Summer," wasn't even a hit. Since its publication in 1972, the 600-page book has gone out of print, as has its obscure …