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Physical Description:print xvii, 630 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York : Random House, [2015]
Content descriptions
General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Pt. 1. Apprenticeship -- Autobiographical -- The Prevalence of Wonders -- Moviegoer -- Christchurch -- William Blackburn -- Almost a Rhodes Scholar -- A Case of the Great Pox -- Pt. 2. The South -- The Oldest America -- The James -- Children of a Brief Sunshine -- Pt. 3. Race and Slavery -- This Quiet Dust -- A Southern Conscience -- Slave and Citizen -- Overcome -- Slavery's Pain, Disney's Gain -- Our Common History -- Acceptance -- In the Southern Camp -- A Voice from the South -- Nat Turner Revisited -- Pt. 4. Final Solutions -- Auschwitz -- Hell Reconsidered -- Auschwitz and Hiroshima -- A Wheel of Evil Come Full Circle -- Pt. 5. Disorders of the Mind -- Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died -- Prozac Days, Halcion Nights -- "Interior Pain" -- Pt. 6. Warfare and Military Life -- MacArthur -- The Red Badge of Literature -- A Farewell to Arms -- Calley -- Arnheiter -- The Wreckage of an American War -- A Father's Prophecy -- Pt. 7. Prisoners -- The Death-in-Life of Benjamin Reid -- Benjamin Reid: Aftermath -- Aftermath of "Aftermath" -- The Joint -- A Death in Canaan -- Death Row -- Pt. 8. Presidential -- Havanas in Camelot -- Les Amis du President -- Francois Mitterrand -- Family Values -- Clinton and the Puritans -- Pt. 9. Reports -- Chicago: 1968 -- Down the Nile -- Pt. 10. Literary -- Lie Down in Darkness -- "I'll Have to Ask Indianapolis-" -- Letter to an Editor -- The Paris Review -- The Long March -- We Weren't in It for the Money -- The Book on Lolita -- Fessing Up -- The MacDowell Medal -- Pt. 11. Antecedents -- William Faulkner -- "O Lost!" Etc. -- An Elegy for F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A Second Flowering -- A Literary Forefather -- Pt. 12. Friends and Contemporaries -- My Generation -- Robert Penn Warren -- Lillian's Bosom -- Irwin Shaw -- Jimmy in the House -- Celebrating Capote -- James Jones -- Transcontinental with Tex -- Peter Matthiessen -- Bennett Cerf -- Bob Loomis -- Philip Rahv -- Remembering Ralph -- C. Vann Woodward -- It Cannot Be Long -- My Neighbor Arthur -- Big Jim -- The Contumacious Mr. Roth -- Pt. 13. Crusades, Complaints, Gripes -- If You Write for Television -- Fie on Bliss -- The Habit -- Cigarette Ads and the Press -- Too Late for Conversion or Prayer -- Pt. 14. Bagatelles -- The Big Love -- Candy -- Pt. 15. Amours -- Virginia Durr for President -- My Daughters -- Our Model Marriage -- Pt. 16. In Closing -- Walking with Aquinnah -- "In Vineyard Haven"
Summary, etc.:
"Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of public life. Here is the William Styron unafraid to peer into the darkest corners of the 20th century or to take on the complex racial legacy of the United States. But here too is Styron writing about his daily walk with his dog, musing on the Modern Library's "100 Greatest Books," and offering personal insight into the extraordinary array of noted contemporary figures he interacted with over the course of an illustrious career. These are the people and events, tragic and joyful, historical and intimate, that aroused Styron's unrivalled curiosity"--
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