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The five personal and intensely powerful tales that make up this collection draw upon William Styron's real-life experiences in the US Marine Corps, and give us an insight into the early life of one of America's 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 New York to see their girlfriends on 36 hour leave periods; the surreal experience of being conscripted for a second time to serve in the Korean War; and the frustration and isolation of returning home when service is over.
The Suicide Run brings to life the drama, inhumanity, absurdity and heroism that forever changed the men who served in the Marine Corps.
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"Quite brilliant" (Esquire)
"In his elegant, sometimes ornate, prose, Styron balances a loathing of military life with a respect for the human nobility it grants the most unlikely candidates" (Daily Telegraph)
"This group of previously unpublished stories by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Styron crackle with youthful virtuosity" (Jeffrey Taylor Sunday Express)
"What intrigues here is the way all soldiers, whether or not they ever see combat, still live with the notion: I am expendable canon fodder. And that sort of existential knowledge makes even the toughest Marine pause for thought" (Douglas Kennedy Independent)
"This book will be welcomed by admirers of Styron's work" (Times Literary Supplement)
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A powerful insight into the early years of one of America's greatest modern writers.
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- EditoreVintage
- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 0099532220
- ISBN 13 9780099532224
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine208
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. The Suicide Run collects five of William Styron\'s meticulously rendered narratives based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine.In \"Blankenship,\" Styron draws on his stint as a guard at a stateside military prison at the end of World War II. \"Marriott, the Marine\" and \"The Suicide Run\" - which Styron composed as part of an intended novel that he set aside to write Sophie\'s Choice - depict the surreal experience of being conscripted a second time, after World War II, to serve in the Korean War. \"My Father\'s House\" captures the frustration of a soldier trying to become a civilian again. In \"Elobey, Annobon, and Corisco,\" a soldier attempts to exorcise the dread of an approaching battle by daydreaming about far-off islands, visited vicariously through his childhood stamp collection.Perhaps the last volume from one of literature\'s greatest voices, The Suicide Run brings to life the drama, absurdity, and heroism that forever changed the men who served in the Marine Corps. Codice articolo AMPLE0099532220
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