In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice.

Sophie's Choice

Literature & Fiction

STYRON, WILLIAM

Literary

Vintage

Suicide Run

Vintage Books USA

This Quiet Dust

Contemporary

Vintage Classics

Sophie's choice

Arts & Photography

Music

CAPE.

"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

THIS QUIET DUST AND OTHER WRITINGS

Essays & Correspondence

JONATHAN CAPE.

Darkness Visible : A Memoir of Madness

Biographies & Memoirs

<p>A great book consisting of 3 short novellas based in Tidewater, Virginia where Styron grew up. Hardcover. Original jacket. Number line counts down to 1. Book look fantastic. Jacket has light edge wear.</p>

Tidewater Morning

Classics

Cape, Jonathan

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron traces the betrayals and infidelities--the heritage of spite and endlessly disappointed love--that afflict the members of a Southern family and that culminate in the suicide of the beautiful Peyton Loftis.

Lie Down in Darkness

Picador

Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

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