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Rich and remarkable.The 'Tidewater' stories stand as one of Styron's finest works' Los Angeles Times
The movie was Oscar-nominated and the book was banned in libraries across the States. This heartbreaking ...
Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut.He is the author of The Long March, Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire and Sophie's Choice. He has also published Darkness Visible, the remarkable story of his descent into depression, the collection This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, and A Tidewater Morning. William Styron died in 2006.
A powerful insight into the early years of one of America's greatest modern writers.
A first-person narrative that depicts a good man's transformation into an avenging angel
The movie was Oscar-nominated and the book was banned in libraries across the States. This heartbreaking, compassionate and controversial novel interweaves themes of survivor guilt, madness and betrayal ...
'Tremendous writing-Honest and illuminating' Victoria Glendinning, New York Times
'There can be no doubt that Styron is the foremost writer of his generation' Wall Street Journal