The Suicide Run

Informationen zum Autor William Styron (1925-2006), a native of the Tidewater region of Virginia, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the 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 and the Legion d'Honneur. 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. Klappentext A collection of autobiographical stories which bring to life Styron's experiences in the American Marine Corps in a fictional way. Styron, who died in 2006, was the author of the classic novel }Sophie's Choice{, and served in WWII and the Korean War Zusammenfassung The five personal and intensely powerful tales that make up this collection draw upon William Styron's real-life experiences in the US Marine Corps, and give us an insight into the early life of one of America's greatest modern writers.

Product details

• Authors: William Styron
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9780099532224
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953222-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Biographical, Short Stories, FICTION / Thrillers / Military, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), 1950–1953 (Korean War period), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary