Bill Styron's writing and his depression dominated the Styron family landscape, and Alexandra, the youngest of four children and the one who spent the most time alone with her father, learned to navigate his storms in order to survive. She describes a man plagued by demons and not averse to imposing them on a young daughter.
Part biography, part memoir, part elegy, Reading My Fathertells the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last. From Styron's Tidewater Virginia youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best known books and on through his devastating spiral into madness, Reading My Fatherchronicles the epic sweep of an American artist's life. It offers an intimate look at a great literary generation's friendships and their dramas. But it is also a tale of filial love and a journey toward understanding and forgiveness.
- ISBN10 1416591796
- ISBN13 9781416591795
- Publish Date 19 April 2011
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 17 February 2016
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Imprint Scribner
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English