A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth - Hardcover

Styron, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568950489 ISBN 13: 9781568950488

Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Three stories by the author of Sophie's Choice 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. (General Fiction).

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From the Inside Flap:

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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1568950489
• ISBN 13: 9781568950488
• Binding: Hardcover