{"product_id":"reading-my-father-9781416591818","title":"Reading My Father","description":"\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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781416591818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/08\/2012 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/22\/2013 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alexandra Styron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52750011007157,"sku":"9781416591818","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/reading-my-father-9781416591818","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}