{"product_id":"reading-my-father-paperback","title":"Reading My Father - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Styron\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of a daughter coming to know her father at last--a deeply personal literary memoir about William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice and Darkness Visible--\"ardent, sophisticated, and entirely winning...this is a grown-up memoir...taut and true\" (The New York Times).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart memoir and part elegy, \u003ci\u003eReading My Father\u003c\/i\u003e is Alexandra Styron's intimate portrait of her father, William Styron, one of the defining American novelists of the 20th century. \"A natural writer, fluid, and engaging\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), Alexandra Styron grew up in Connecticut and on Martha's Vineyard, where her family's vibrant social life included writers, presidents, and entertainers. She was raised under both the halo of her father's brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. William Styron, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, was a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, \u003ci\u003eDarkness Visible\u003c\/i\u003e, searingly chronicled his midlife battle with major depression. \"By turns brilliant and shocking\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eReading My Father \u003c\/i\u003eis a tale of family, memory, mental illness, literary fame, and a daughter's love, beautifully written, with humor, understanding, and grace.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexandra Styron\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a novel \u003ci\u003eAll The Finest Girls\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of Barnard College and the MFA program at Columbia University, Alexandra's work has appeared in several anthologies as well as in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAvenue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReal Simple\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eInterview, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48506211696888,"sku":"9781416591818","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/ikvG4G2hRg9781416591818.webp?v=1779472227","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/reading-my-father-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}