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This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings » (1st Vintage international ed)
Authors: William Styron
ISBN-13: 9780679735960, ISBN-10: 0679735968
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: 1st Vintage international ed
Author Biography: William Styron
Whether fictionalizing a slave uprising in The Confessions of Nat Turner or breaking the silence on clinical depression, William Styron's work inspired not only accolades but national dialogues.
Book Synopsis
Profound and passionate essays from one of America’s greatest literary voices of the twentieth century This Quiet Dust is a compilation of William Styron’s ...
Biography
Whether fictionalizing a slave uprising in The Confessions of Nat Turner or breaking the silence on clinical depression, William Styron's work inspired not only accolades but national dialogues.
Table of Contents
| Note to the Reader | ||
| South | 3 | |
| Introduction | 3 | |
| This Quiet Dust | 9 | |
| A Southern Conscience | 31 | |
| Slave and Citizen | 35 | |
| In the Southern Camp | 39 | |
| The Oldest America | 48 | |
| A Voice from the South | 52 | |
| The Habit | 65 | |
| Forebears | 73 | |
| "O Lost!" Etc. | 73 | |
| An Elegy for F. Scott Fitzgerald | 87 | |
| A Second Flowering | 95 | |
| Hell Reconsidered | 105 | |
| Victims | 119 | |
| Introduction | 119 | |
| The Death-in-Life of Benjamin Reid | 122 | |
| Benjamin Reid: Aftermath | 137 | |
| Aftermath of "Aftermath" | 147 | |
| The Joint | 153 | |
| A Death in Canaan | 159 | |
| Death Row | 165 | |
| Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died | 169 | |
| Down the Nile | 175 | |
| Lollipops | 193 | |
| The Big Love | 193 | |
| Candy | 200 | |
| The Service | 207 | |
| Introduction | 207 | |
| MacArthur | 210 | |
| The Red Badge of Literature | 221 | |
| A Farewell to Arms | 226 | |
| Calley | 236 | |
| Arnheiter | 244 | |
| The Wreckage of an American War | 248 | |
| Chicago: 1968 | 255 | |
| Portraits and Farewells | 267 | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 267 | |
| Peter Matthiessen | 271 | |
| William Blackburn | 275 | |
| William Faulkner | 279 | |
| Philip Rahv | 286 | |
| James Jones | 289 | |
| Bennett Cerf | 299 | |
| Francois Mitterrand | 301 | |
| Looking Back | 309 | |
| Christchurch | 309 | |
| The James | 313 | |
| Almost a Rhodes Scholar | 317 | |
| Lie Down in Darkness | 323 | |
| The Paris Review | 329 | |
| The Long March | 333 | |
| Auschwitz | 336 | |
| The MacDowell Medal | 340 |
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