This Quiet Dust
Description
"Thoughtful, candid" essays from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Sophie's Choice ( The Christian Science Monitor). This Quiet Dust is a compilation of William Styron's nonfiction writings that confront significant moral questions with precision and vigor. He examines topics as diverse as the Holocaust, the American Dream, and the controversy that raged around his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner. In each entry, Styron expertly wields his powers of insight to slice through the most complex issues.
This Quiet Dust offers a window into the philosophical underpinnings of Styron's greatest novels and is the ideal entry for readers seeking a greater understanding into the work of one of America's most celebrated authors. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.More details
Person
William Styron (1925-2006), born in Newport News, Virginia, was one of the greatest American writers of his generation. Styron published his first book, Lie Down in Darkness, at age twenty-six and went on to write such influential works as the controversial and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner and the international bestseller Sophie's Choice.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- NOTE TO THE READER
- SOUTH
- INTRODUCTION
- This Quiet Dust
- A Southern Conscience
- Slave and Citizen
- In the Southern Camp
- The Oldest America
- A Voice from the South
- THE HABIT
- FOREBEARS
- "O Lost!" Etc.
- An Elegy for F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Second Flowering
- HELL RECONSIDERED
- VICTIMS
- INTRODUCTION
- The Death-in-Life of Benjamin Reid
- Benjamin Reid: Aftermath
- AFTERMATH OF "AFTERMATH
- The Joint
- A Death in Canaan
- Death Row
- Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died
- DOWN THE NILE
- LOLLIPOPS
- The Big Love
- Candy
- THE SERVICE
- INTRODUCTION
- MacArthur
- The Red Badge of Literature
- A Farewell to Arms
- Calley
- Arnheiter
- The Wreckage of an American War
- CHICAGO: 1968
- PORTRAITS AND FAREWELLS
- Robert Penn Warren
- Peter Matthiessen
- William Blackburn
- William Faulkner
- Philip Rahv
- James Jones
- Bennett Cerf
- François Mitterrand
- LOOKING BACK
- Christchurch
- The James
- Almost a Rhodes Scholar
- Lie Down in Darkness
- The Paris Review
- The Long March
- Auschwitz
- The MacDowell Medal
- A Biography of William Styron
- COPYRIGHT
