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A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth Kindle Edition
In Love Day, twenty-year-old Paul Whitehurst is a Marine lieutenant during World War II, waiting to land on Okinawa, wrestling with anxiety and memories of his boyhood in Virginia.
In Shadrach, ten-year-old Paul witnesses his neighbors as they welcome a guest: a ninety-nine-year-old former slave who has walked nine hundred miles from Alabama so that he may die on the land of his childhood owner.
And in A Tidewater Morning, Paul is thirteen and struggling to deal with his mother’s impending death from cancer.
Together in one volume, each of these affecting semiautobiographical novellas from the author of such literary classics as the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Confessions of Nat Turner and the memoir Darkness Visible, weaves together the transformative experiences of Whitehurst’s early life with William Styron’s signature deep historical insight, underscoring how the significance of the past informs the present. As the Los Angeles Times notes, it is “one of Styron’s finest works. . . . The beauty and humanity of the Southern tradition are evoked vividly.”
This ebook features a new illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOpen Road Media
- Publication dateMay 4, 2010
- File size2655 KB
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“Rich and remarkable. . . . The ‘Tidewater’ stories stand as one of Styron’s finest works.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review“Essential Styron.” —Washington Post Book World“The stories . . . will surprise and delight. . . . Both heartbreaking and strangely consoling.” —The New York Times Book Review
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About the Author
William Styron (1925–2006), born in Newport News, Virginia, was one of the greatest American writers of his generation. Styron published his first book, Lie Down in Darkness, at age twenty-six and went on to write such influential works as the controversial and Pulitzer Prize–winning The Confessions of Nat Turner and the international bestseller Sophie’s Choice.
Product details
- ASIN : B00BBPW8U8
- Publisher : Open Road Media (May 4, 2010)
- Publication date : May 4, 2010
- Language : English
- File size : 2655 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 161 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #483,094 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,207 in Biographical Fiction (Books)
- #2,647 in U.S. Historical Fiction
- #2,770 in Historical Literary Fiction
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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 Legion 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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Mr Styron already has a reputation as a good writer, he doesn’t need my introduction.