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Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction-including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. The Suicide Run collects five of these meticulously rendered narratives. One of them-Elobey, Annobon, and Corisco-is published here for the first time. In Blankenship, written in 1953, Styron draws on his stint as a guard at a stateside military prison at the end of World War II. Marriott, the Marine and The Suicide Run-which Styron composed in the early 1970s as part of an intended novel that he set aside to write Sophie's Choice-depict the surreal experience of being conscripted a second time, after World War II, to serve in the Korean War. My Father's House captures the isolation and frustration of a soldier trying to become a civilian again. In Elobey, Annobon, and Corisco, written late in Styron's life, a soldier attempts to exorcise the dread of an approaching battle by daydreaming about far-off islands, visited vicariously through his childhood stamp collection. Perhaps the last volume from one of literature's greatest voices, The Suicide Run brings to life the drama, inhumanity, absurdity, and heroism that forever changed the men who served in the Marine Corps. From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author :
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 Legion 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. "From the Hardcover edition."

Review :
"Short fiction from a Southern master of the sweeping, ambitiously themed, epic novel.. . . Taken as a whole, these fragments illuminate their author's obsessions and make the reader wish Styron had completed at least two more novels. Essential reading for the writer's fans; a revelatory footnote for others."--"Kirkus Reviews" "Styron's prose is as assured as ever and his knack for character is masterful."--"Publishers Weekly" "Styron has always been drawn to moral and emotional complexity, and in these three stories we see him at work skillfully exploring that rich and provocative terrain again."--"Library Journal" "From the Hardcover edition."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780739385166
  • Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Height: 129 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Five Tales of the Marine Corps
  • Width: 151 mm
  • ISBN-10: 073938516X
  • Publisher Date: 06 Oct 2009
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 168 gr


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