Havanas In Camelot: Personal Essays - Hardcover

Styron, William

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9781400067190: Havanas In Camelot: Personal Essays

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ISBN 10: 1400067197 ISBN 13: 9781400067190

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2008

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A memorable anthology of essays by the award-winning late author of Sophie's Choice furnishes a intimate glimpse inside the private world of the novelist in a collection that includes the author's experiences with fellow writers, his relationship with world leaders, his personal take on great literature, censorship, and more. 30,000 first printing.

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Styron exhales in these essays, displaying an ease that conveys even more intensely the fire within. "Boston Globe
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Each of Styron s fourteen pieces is a gem. "Newsweek
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The graceful results of one man s struggle to describe in the most perfect possible words the geography of the human heart. "Cleveland Plain Dealer
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A poignant reminder of the power and appeal of a voice now silent. Kirkus Reviews, starred review
The empathetic and keenly observed recollections of a grand old man of letters looking back with fondness on a life rich with incident . . . a gently rolling memory loop from a man who was generous in his praise and exacting in his art. "Los Angeles Times Book Review
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"Styron exhales in these essays, displaying an ease that conveys even more intensely the fire within."--Boston Globe

"Each of Styron's fourteen pieces is a gem."--Newsweek

"The graceful results of one man's struggle to describe in the most perfect possible words the geography of the human heart."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A poignant reminder of the power and appeal of a voice now silent."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"The empathetic and keenly observed recollections of a grand old man of letters looking back with fondness on a life rich with incident . . . a gently rolling memory loop from a man who was generous in his praise and exacting in his art."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

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 L�gion 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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