The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2004
Summary
A first-person narrative that depicts a good man’s transformation into an avenging angel
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of ‘that peculiar institution’. William Styron’s ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner’s confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, crue…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099285564 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099285568 |
| Author: | William Styron |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Critics Review
Styron has brought to bear on the experience of the Afro-American his penetrating intelligence and his immense skills in creating character, writing dialogue and confronting explosive themes
Styron has brought to bear on the experience of the Afro-American his penetrating intelligence and his immense skills in creating character, writing dialogue and confronting explosive themes * Financial Times *
Immensely powerful and compelling * Spectator *
Magnificent…It is one of those rare books that show us our American past, our present - ourselves - is a dazzling shaft of light…A triumph * New York Times *
William Styron
William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925 and educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the Second World War and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe before settling in a rural part of Connecticut.
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