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Three stories detail a former slave's return to his birthplace, the impact of war on personal relationships, and a mother's death, all viewed through the eyes of a youth in Tidewater Virginia
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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 Légion 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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liant collection of "long short stories, " the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, William Styron explores with new eloquence death, loss, war, and racism.
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- PublisherRandom House Inc
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0679429638
- ISBN 13 9780679429630
- BindingHardcover
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A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth
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ISBN 13: 9780679429630
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book is NEW unopened and still in it's original vinyl wrap. Publishers slip case is new. This is a limited edition #164/200. The author notes that he was " half comfortable" of his experiences at ages twenty, ten and thirteen. Again visiting WWII and a marine division in the South Pacific ( Love Days). (Shadrack) set in the depression era, 1935, in which a white boy envies a slovenly family that has a very rich and robust life, and whee a 99 year old ex-slave comes home to die. Finally, set in 1938 amid the rumblings of war ( A Tidewater morning) shows a young boy rebelling against a cruel boss and the sorrow of a mother who is dying of cancer and a father who crumbles under the life's weight. This Styron collectible would make a fine addition to any good library. Signed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Limited editon. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001646
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