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The Suicide Run

The Suicide Run


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The four narratives which make up this posthumous collection draw upon William Styron s experiences in the US Marine Corps, and give us an insight into the early life of one of America s greatest modern writers.William Styron earned a commission as second lieutenant in the U.S Marine Corps in 1945, shortly after his twentieth birthday. He was scheduled to participate in the assault on mainland Japan, most likely as the leader of a mortar platoon, but in early August the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war. Before he was discharged Styron served a six-week stint as an officer at the military prison on Harts Island in Long Island Sound.In December 1945 he was mustered out of the Marine Corps, and lived with his father and stepmother at their home in Newport News, Virginia, before completing his bachelor degree at Duke University and embarking on his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness.Early in 1951, as he was composing the last two chapters of his manuscript, Styron was recalled into the Marine Corps for service in Korea.The stories of The Suicide Run are set in the gruelling camps and sweltering training fields that marked the limbo point betw

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Born at Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the Second World 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.In 1968 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Confessions of Nat Turner.He is also the author of the award-winning Sophie's Choice, Lie Down in Darkness, This Quiet Dust and a best-selling memoir, Darkness Visible.

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an invaluable meditation on youth. Styron's languid prose gives his thoughtful characters space to consider the grim odds of war in these tightly coiled tales


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780224087384
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Height: 224 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 143 mm
  • ISBN-10: 022408738X
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jan 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 335 gr


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