Reading My Father : A Memoir (Paperback)

from nmele

This is an elegant memoir of William Styron by his youngest child, whose meticulous research benefits from her personal memories and insights into his life.

from Gregorio_Roth

William Styron was a greatly flawed man shaped by promise and destroyed by clinical depression. This book shows how Styron's depression shaped his daughter to be a writer. The book was really depressing and not that much fun to read. However, if you want a book that examines the effect that psych...

from bobbieharv

I kept getting the feeling of circling as I was reading this memoir, which is really a confusing combination of biography and memoir. It was as if Styron was going round and round, coming ever closer to describing her father from the inside out, but obscuring her own feelings by the biographical ...

from TimBazzett

I should probably admit up front that I've only read one book by William Styron, his much-acclaimed SOPHIE'S CHOICE. It was a book which easily held me in its thrall and I remember it as a beautifully written work. And I knew Styron continues to be held in some reverence by serious readers everyw...

from Sullywriter

A vivid, poignant, and totally absorbing memoir.