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This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings

This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings

Styron, William

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Letters & EssaysLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0679735968
ISBN13: 9780679735960
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 4 1993
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
Styron is pre-eminent . . . in his instinct for tragedy and in his respect for the sheer force of human feeling.--Alfred Kazin

In an age when much American writing was either glacially noncommittal or heremetically personal, William Styron persisted in addressing great moral issues with incendiary passion. Seriousness and ardor characterize all the essays in This Quiet Dust, the first book of nonfiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie's Choice.

In this edition, which has been updated with the inclusion of six previously uncollected essays, Styron covers a wide range of concerns; yet whether he is recounting his search for the historic Nat Turner, peering into the abyss of Auschwitz, navigating the battlefields of Vietnam and Chicago in 1968, or offering fresh assessments of Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, James Jones, and Robert Penn Warren, Styron is always a consummate literary stylist. One who is as engaging as he is engaged.

[Styron is] the most accomplished craftsman, and one of the most penetrating witnesses of our life.--Associated Press

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