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Reading my father a memoir

Styron, Alexandra more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Non Fiction
BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography: literary
Audience: General/trade
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Publication Date: 1/04/2012
Place of Publication: United States

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In "Reading My Father," William Styron's youngest child explores the life of a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, "Darkness Visible, "so searingly chronicled his battle with major depression. Alexandra Styron's parents--the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Sophie's Choice "and his political activist wife, Rose--were, for half a century, leading players on the world's cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father's brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. A drinker, a carouser, and above all "a high priest at the altar of fiction," Styron helped define the concept of The Big Male Writer that gave so much of twentieth-century American fiction a muscular, glamorous aura.

"Alexandra Styron's account of her father is clear-eyed, frightening, and compassionate: an often lyrical view of Styron's struggle with despair, writing, and living. She is unsentimental about the toll his depression and alcoholism took on his work, and even less sentimental about the damage it did to his family. William Styron was a great writer and complex person; his daughter does him justice.."--Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and author of "An Unquiet Mind" and "Nothing Was the Same"

Title: Reading my father
Subtitle: a memoir
Contributors: By (author) Alexandra Styron

ISBN 13: 9781416591818
ISBN 10: 1416591818

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Publication Date: 1/04/2012
Place of Publication: New York, United States
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BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography: literary
Dewey Classification: 813.6 (DC21)
NBS Classification: Autobiography: Literary

Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Height: 201mm
Width: 132mm
Thickness: 20mm
Weight: 249g