The novelist William Styron realized during the summer of 1984, when he was 60 years old, that the joylessness, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts he had been experiencing were not simply part of an episode of harmless melancholy, but the marks of a severe and terrifying depression (he calls it "madness") that had become debilitating. As he ...
The heroine of Styron's novel is based on a Polish survivor of Auschwitz he knew when he lived in a Brooklyn rooming house in the late 1940s. The narrator--in the tradition of Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway in THE GREAT GATSBY--is Stingo, the young Southern writer who falls in love with Sophie, his upstairs neighbor, and tells her dramatic story and ...
Published during the political and racial turmoil of the 1960s, THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER is a fictionalized version of the written documents of a man who led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. As Styron wrote at the time, "Had perfect accuracy been my aim I would have written a work of history rather than a novel." His controversial novel ...
In June, 1983, Dennis Stockton entered death row in Virginia's state penitentiary, convicted of a murder he insisted he had not committed. For the next twelve years he remained there, during which time he helped plan the only successful mass escape from death row in U.S. history (though he ultimately decided not to join the escapees), developed a ...
After the great success of "Darkness Visible," his memoir of depression and recovery, Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. These essays make possible a fuller assessment of this enigmatic man of American letters.
This is the story of a tormented family driven by vengeful love. The South looms dark and ominous in the background with its Biblical rhetoric, its conflict between a tradition of religious fundamentalism and modern scepticism, racial contrasts and the industrialization of a rural society.
By turns adoring, alienating, challenging, and cherished, the bond between a father and daughter is always a complex and compelling one. Acclaimed photographer Cook explores this eternal relationship in a remarkable assemblage of photographic portraits of 60 fathers and daughters, both famous and obscure. Introduction by William Styron.
Styron calls these three stories--all of which take place in the Virginia Tidewater of the 1930s--"an imaginative shaping of real events." They include the reminiscences of a Marine about to participate in the invasion of Japan, a child recalling the last day of a former slave he knew, and the death of a young teenager's mother from agonizing ...
Styron calls these three stories--all of which take place in the Virginia Tidewater of the 1930s--"an imaginative shaping of real events." They include the reminiscences of a Marine about to participate in the invasion of Japan, a child recalling the last day of a former slave he knew, and the death of a young teenager's mother from agonizing ...
Styron's novella THE LONG MARCH is about a pair of Marines in World War II who are bullied and intimidated by a sadistic colonel. IN THE CLAP SHACK is a comic play about a young sailor in a VD ward.
The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality. The author also wrote "Lie Down in Darkness", "The Long March" and "Sophie's Choice".
This is the first of non-fiction titles from William Styron which addresses great moral issues with passion and precision. His writing is at once meditative and engaged, personal and erudite, whether he is covering the greats of American literature, or exploring the nature of the American South. Throughout, Styron's warmth, humour and candour, ...
Three dozen of Styron's non-fiction pieces--many of them highly personal--are collected in this volume, which covers a wide range of subjects including military life, the American criminal justice system, and the South.
Styron's novella THE LONG MARCH is about a pair of Marines in World War II who are bullied and intimidated by a sadistic colonel. IN THE CLAP SHACK is a comic play about a young sailor in a VD ward.
Reverend Joseph Ingle's moving book argues eloquently and passionately against the death penalty, serving as an enduring testament to the inmates who have touched his life. Ingle, a counselor to prisoners on Death Row since 1974, chronicles his experiences working with 12 condemned men and one condemned woman each of whom has since been executed. ...
From 1947 to 1949, William Styron twice attempted to write a novel under the working title "Inheritance of Night." On the third attempt he produced the award-winning "Lie Down in Darkness," which when published in September 1951 established him as one of the most promising writers of his generation. Duke University Press is proud to publish, in ...
A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
An account of the last days of French President Francois Mitterand, written by the editor of "Le Figaro". Giesbert met with Mitterand frequently during the last years of his life, and he provides an intimate account of their conversations about politics, history, religion, death, and art.
A bold and historic anthology of Soviet and American short stories and poetry, jointly edited and published in both the United States and the Soviet Union. This collection of representative "snapshots" reveals how different and alike we are. American writers include Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Raymond Carver and Adrienne Rich.
Naylon's captivating historical narrative portrays the heroes and heriones who have stimulated medicine's greatest advances during war--from battle in ancient Greece through America's Civil War, the two world wars, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. Prologue by Willian Styron. Photos. Illustrations.
Joe Ingle's guest to end the death penalty in the United States earned him friendships with many Death Row inmates, including 13 who were executed by the state. In last rights, Ingle eloquently shows why capital punishment must end now.
An account of the last days of French President Francois Mitterand, written by the editor of "Le Figaro". Giesbert met with Mitterand frequently during the last years of his life, and he provides an intimate account of their conversations about politics, history, religion, death, and art.
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