THIS QUIET DUST AND OTHER WRITINGS. Signed.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.
1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First UK Edition signed by Styron on the title page. 8vo. 305 pp. Fine in original deep burgandy cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine - in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. Styron's first book of non-fiction, a selection of essays and r eviews indicative of this author's sensibilities and lifetime preoccupations. With particularly insightful pieces on his native South, the repercussions of his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, a poignant essay on Auschwitz, reflecting Styron's fourth novel, Sophie's Choice, winner of the 1980 American Book Award, reminiscences of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Penn Warren, Thomas Wolfe, James Jones, William Faulkner, Peter Matthiessen and a superb essay on the incept io n and writing of his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Prix de Rome, 1952.
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