Reading My Father: A Memoir

Title: Reading My Father: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Styron ISBN: 9781416591818 Publisher: Scribner Published: 2012 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Good C 1635315 Publisher Description: Now in paperback, the format for memoir, the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last--"ardent, sophisticated, and entirely winning...this is a grown up memoir...taut 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 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, w