This Quiet Dust & Other Writings William Styron

This Quiet Dust & Other Writings William Styron

Hardback with dust jacket in very good condition with plastic cover-ex library some yellowing

'The Quiet Dust is a collection of prose essays on subjects ranging from the spiritual enchantment of the Nile to pornography. It is also a partial record of William Styron's life, reflecting the themes and issues that have permeated his magnificent fiction: as he puts it, 'a chronicle of those matters which have either bedevilled or beguiled me'.

The author of Sophie's Choice explains why he thinks the series Holocaust 'may have been in its soft-headed vulgarity, one of television's most creditable dramatic efforts, until it degenerated into skillfully rigged but hollow theatrics. With the hindsight of fifteen years he contemplates the hostile and intractable hysteria caused by his Pulitzer Prize winning book The Confessions of Nat Turner. He examines the issues behind capital punishment, penal and judicial fallibility and the moral complexity of a military life. We hear of Scott Fitzgerald's generosity. General MacArthur's lust for war and Mayor Dayley's impulse to Armageddon at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Styron investigates how Southern women came to warrant being called 'belles', how Lieutenant Calley rationalised his massacre at My Lai and with heart-rending directness, why it is never to late to give up smoking.

This Quiet Dust is a rich display of persistent enquiry never self-satisfied, always humane and thought-provoking. William Stryon's essays are everything his novels would lead you to expect.

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