This Quiet Dust

William Styron

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Vintage Classics
18 December 2012

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice explores a range of moral, political, historical and literary subjects in this impressive collection of essays, threaded with personal memoirs

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 stimulating reading.

By: William Styron
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 245g
ISBN: 9780099577034
ISBN 10: 0099577038
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 18 December 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut. William Styron died in 2006. He is the author of The Long March, Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire and Sophie's Choice. He has also published Darkness Visible, the collection This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, and A Tidewater Morning.

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[Styron is] the most accomplished craftsman, and one of the most penetrating witnesses of our life Associated Press Styron has bought to bear his penetrating intelligence and immense skills in confronting explosive themes Financial Times One of those quintessentially American writers capable of blending the rugged with the romantic, the macho with the tender Daily Telegraph [A man] whose fiction turned brutal truths into beauty Daily Telegraph

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