This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings by Styron, William

This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679735960)

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This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings by Styron, William

This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings

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This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings by Styron, William

This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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"Styron is pre-eminent . . . in his instinct for tragedy and in his respect for the sheer force of human feeling."--Alfred Kazin

In an age when much American writing was either glacially noncommittal or heremetically personal, William Styron persisted in addressing great moral issues with incendiary passion. Seriousness and ardor characterize all the essays in This Quiet Dust, the first book of nonfiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie's Choice.

In this edition, which has been updated with the inclusion of six previously uncollected essays, Styron covers a wide range of concerns; yet whether he is recounting his search for the historic Nat Turner, peering into the abyss of Auschwitz, navigating the battlefields of Vietnam and Chicago in 1968, or offering fresh assessments of Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, James Jones, and Robert Penn Warren, Styron is always a consummate literary stylist. One who is as engaging as he is engaged.

"[Styron is] the most accomplished craftsman, and one of the most penetrating witnesses of our life."--Associated Press

Author: William Styron
ISBN-10: 0679735968
ISBN-13: 9780679735960
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/04/1993
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.24w x 0.80d
By William Styron
By William Styron
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William Styron (1925-2006), a native of the Virginia Tidewater, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His books include Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice, This Quiet Dust, Darkness Visible, and A Tidewater Morning. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the L馮ion d'Honneur, and the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. With his wife, the poet and activist Rose Styron, he lived for most of his adult life in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he is buried.

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