Reading My Father A Memoir

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Now in paperback, the format for memoir, the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last“ardent, sophisticated, and entirely winningthis is a grown up memoirtaut and true” (The New York Times).PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, Reading My Father is the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last. “A natural writer, fluid, and engaging” (The Boston Globe), Alexandra Styron grew up in Connecticut and on Marthas Vineyard, where her familys vibrant social life included writers, presidents, and entertainers. She was raised under both the halo of her fathers 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, Darkness Visible, searingly chronicled his midlife battle with major depression. “By turns brilliant and shocking” (The New York Times Book Review), Reading My Father is a tale of a daughters love and her own coming-of-age, beautifully written, with humor, understanding, and grace.

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