Havanas in Camelot : : Personal Essays
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Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of Styron's personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; a recollection of the power and ceremony on display at the inauguration of François Mitterrand; memoirs of Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark Twain; an account of Styron's daily walks with his dog; and an evocation of his summer home on Martha's Vineyard. Styron's essays touch on the great themes of his fiction--racial oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust--but for the most part they address other subjects: bowdlerizations of history, literary lists, childhood moviegoing, the censoring of his own work, and the pursuit of celebrity fetish objects.--From amazon.com.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 162 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781400067190 (alk. paper)
1400067197 (alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Styron, William, -- 1925-2006.
Essays.