STYRON WILLIAM

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Το 1985 ο William Styron έφτασε στα όρια της αυτοκτονίας, θύμα της κατάθλιψης, της ασθένειας που οδήγησε στον θάνατο τον Πρίμο Λέβι, τον Έρνεστ Χέμινγουεϊ, τη Σύλβια Πλαθ, τη Βιρτζίνια Γουλφ, τον Τζακ Λόντον. Σχεδόν από θαύμα, κατόρθωσε να ξαναβρεί την ψυχική του υγεία και να καταγράψει το οδοιπορικό του ως πάσχοντος σε ένα κείμενο που πρωτοδημοσιεύτηκε το 1989 στο Vanity Fair. Τον αμέσως επόμενο χρόνο εκδόθηκε αυτοτελώς σε βιβλίο που εκθειάστηκε από τους κριτικούς και γνώρισε ενθουσιώδη υποδοχή από το κοινό. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθό...
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(P/B) DEPRESSION
‘It turned out that putting together a suicide note was the most difficult task of writing that I had ever tackled’ How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to give us this gripping description of his descent into mental anguish, and his eventual success in overcoming a little-under...
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Η ΕΠΙΛΟΓΗ ΤΗΣ ΣΟΦΙ
Ο Στίνγκο, ένας άγουρος εικοσάχρονος του αμερικανικού Νότου, μας πηγαίνει πίσω στο καλοκαίρι του 1947, στην πανσιόν ενός χλοερού προάστιου του Μπρούκλυν. Εκεί γνωρίζει τον Νέηθαν, έναν φλογερό Εβραίο διανοούμενο, και τη Σόφι, όμορφη και εύθραυστη Πολωνή καθολική. Ο Στίνγκο παρασύρεται προς τα ενδότερα της παθιασμένης και ολέθριας σχέσης τους εν είδει μάρτυρα, έμπιστου φίλου και ικέτη. Εντέλει, οδηγείται στον σκοτεινό πυρήνα του παρελθόντος της Σόφι: στις αναμνήσεις από την προπολεμική Πολωνία, το στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης και - στην ουσία το...
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(P/B) SOPHIE'S CHOICE
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 secr...
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(P/B) THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER
In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that still sear the collective psyches of both races. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE SUICIDE RUN
A powerful insight into the early years of one of America's greatest modern writers. The five personal and intensely powerful tales that make up this collection draw upon William Styrons real-life experiences in the US Marine Corps, and give us an insight into the early life of one of Americas greatest modern writers. The stories are set in the gruelling camps and sweltering training fields which mark the limbo point between civilian life and the horrors of war. The stories tell of young men embarking on suicidal 1000 mile roundtrips to Ne...
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(P/B) THE LONG MARCH

(P/B) SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE
The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg. Three events - murder, rape and suicide - explode in the is relentless and passionate novel,...
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(P/B) THIS QUIET DUST
In This Quiet Dust, the first book of non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-wining author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie's Choice, William Styron addresses great moral issues with passion and precision. His writing is at once meditative and engaged, personal and erudite, whether he is covering the dark side of the American and European dream, exploring the greats of American literature, or exploring the nature of the American South. Throughout, Styron's warmth, humour and candour, coupled with a refusal to judge, make for stirring and stim...
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(P/B) A TIDEWATER MORNING
In this brilliant 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 publisher)...
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