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  • The Long March
    William Styron
    'The long march' by William Styron offers a powerful and unflinching exploration of the human experience during wartime. Set against the backdrop of the Korean War, this compelling work of military fiction delves into the arduous realities faced by soldiers in combat. Styron, a celebrated literary voice, masterfully portrays the psychological and physical toll of military life,...
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    17,47 €

  • This Quiet Dust
    William Styron
    In This Quiet Dust the first book of non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-wining author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie’s Choice William Styron addresses great moral issues with passion and precision. His writing is at once meditative and engaged personal and erudite whether he is covering the dark side of the American and European dream exploring the greats of American li...
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    23,44 €

  • The Long March
    William Styron
    In the blaze of a Carolina summer among the poison ivy and loblolly pines eight Marines are killed almost casually by misfired mortar shells. Deciding that his battalion has been ’doping off’ Colonel Templeton calls for a 36-mile forced march to inculcate discipline. The Long March is a searing account of this ferocious ordeal - and of the two officers who resist. ...
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    19,53 €

  • The Suicide Run
    William Styron
    The five personal and intensely powerful tales that make up this collection draw upon William Styron’s real-life experiences in the US Marine Corps and give us an insight into the early life of one of America’s greatest modern writers. The stories are set in the gruelling camps and sweltering training fields which mark the limbo point between civilian life and the horrors of w...
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    18,12 €

  • A Tidewater Morning
    William Styron
    In this brilliant collection of ’long short stories’ the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie’s Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth William Styron explores with new eloquence death loss war and racism. ...
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    18,31 €

  • Set This House On Fire
    William Styron
    The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was Peter soon realised ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving a tortured self-destructive...
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    23,71 €

  • Lie Down In Darkness
    William Styron
    In this novel the South looms dark and ominous in the background with its Biblical rhetoric its conflict between a tradition of religious fundamentalism and modern scepticism racial contrasts and the industrialisation of a rural society. But more than a novel of time and place it is the story of a tormented family submerged in infidelity and driven by a vengeful love that i...
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    22,06 €