Reading My Father: A Memoirby Alexandra Styron |
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Detailed Personal Development Book Information
- Title:
Reading My Father: A Memoir
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 320
- Language:
- Publisher: Scribner
- Pub. Date: 2012-03-06
- ISBN: 1416591818
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.9
- Shipping Weight: 0.57
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Reading My Father: A Memoir Review
Source: Product DescriptionNow in paperback, the format for memoir, the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last—“ardent, sophisticated, and entirely winning…this is a grown up memoir…taut and true” (The New York Times).
Alexandra Styron, “a natural writer, fluid, and engaging” (The Boston Globe), takes readers inside life with her father—a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir Darkness Visible so searingly chronicled his mid-life battle with major depression. William Styron, a Pulitzer Prize winner, helped define the concept of the Big Male Writer that gave so much of twentieth century American fiction a muscular, glamorous aura. Alexandra grew up in Connecticut and on Martha’s Vineyard, where her family’s vibrant social life included writers, presidents, and entertainers. She was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind.
“By turns brilliant and shocking,” (The New York Times Book Review) Reading My Father offers a ringside seat on a great literary generation’s friendships and their dramas. It is also a tale of a daughter’s love and her own coming of age, beautifully written, with humor, understanding, and grace.
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