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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781400067190 ISBN: 1400067197 Label: Random House Manufacturer: Random House Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: April 08, 2008 Publisher: Random House Release Date: April 08, 2008 Studio: Random House Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; a recollection of the power and ceremony on display at the inauguration of François Mitterrand; memoirs of Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark Twain; an account of Styron’s daily walks with his dog; and an evocation of his summer home on Martha’s Vineyard. Styron’s essays touch on the great themes of his fiction–racial oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust–but for the most part they address other subjects: bowdlerizations of history, literary lists, childhood moviegoing, the censoring of his own work, and the pursuit of celebrity fetish objects. These essays, which reveal a reflective and humorous side of Styron’s nature, make possible a fuller assessment of this enigmatic man of American letters. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - the most underrated writer of his generation... an extraordinary collectioni would recommend this volume not just to previous readers of styron... but to anyone interested in learning about the price and joys of being a writer... styron gives us a peak behind the curtain of his relationships with major players of his generation, other writers such as capote, baldwin... as well as presidents (john kennedy) with kindness and generosity... a very poignant book Rating: - Less Is More: Occasional Pieces by a MasterAlthough he wrote precious little, compared to some of his contemporaries, surely William Styron was one of the best American writers of his generation and produced fiction that will be read as long as there are any readers left. I would argue that SOPHIE'S CHOICE is one of the ten best twentieth century novels by an American writer even though Shelby Foote didn't care for it. It is a treat then to have this posthumous collection of essays to read, most of which have been previously published in ... Read More Rating:  - Styron readers will enjoy these essays-This brief collection of essays and personal reminiscences will bring up memories of your own if you've read and enjoyed Styron's novels, and his previous essays/memoirs collection, "This Quiet Dust". My favorite novelist of the second half of the 20th century, I'm in that admiring group that wants to read every scrap that he wrote; but Styron writes so well, and draws the reader in with his self-effacing humor & curiosity about matters large and small, I can see those who've never read his novels ... Read More 
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