· Ms. Styron’s ardent, sophisticated and entirely winning memoir, “Reading My Father,” is a pointillistic accounting of the drama that brewed throughout her young www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. · From Styron’s Tidewater, Virginia, youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life, offering a ringside seat on a great literary generation’s friendships and their dramas. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written, with humor, compassion, and grace.4/5(45). · For her purpose in “Reading My Father,” by turns brilliant and shocking, is to play the high-society tune in counterpoint with another, harsh and discordant one: life with Father was Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
Alexandra Styron, author of the novel All the Finest Girls, explores her early years in a memoir titled Reading My Father, recently released in paperback. She mines that youthful period of her life in search of occasions that formed her, and the people who starred in those stories. In the title role is her father, the most formidable dynamic in. Reading My Father | ALEXANDRA STYRON. Scribner. Hardcover: pages. ISBN READING MY FATHER: A MEMOIR. by Alexandra Styron. Few novelists of the past 50 years have enjoyed the huge success and lengthy renown of William Styron. With Sophie's Choice, Lie Down in Darkness, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father's brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. From Styron's youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist's life. It is also a tale of.
Reading My Father is a book by a talented writer about her father who is a writer himself. He is most famous for Sophie's Choice and his memoir Darkness Visible and she lived in his shadow. This book is about Alexandra Styron of growing up with a famous father who was a drinker, a womanizer, and a depressed man. Written with astonishing grace and generosity, Alexandra Styron’s Reading My Father, is a moving and illuminating portrait of a great twentieth century novelist and a deeply troubled man. William Styron's writing and his depression dominated the Styron family landscape, and Alexandra, the youngest of four children, learned to navigate his storms in order to survive. For her purpose in “Reading My Father,” by turns brilliant and shocking, is to play the high-society tune in counterpoint with another, harsh and discordant one: life with Father was.
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