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Havanas in Camelot : personal essays
- Title
- Havanas in Camelot : personal essays / William Styron.
- Author
- Styron, William, 1925-2006.
- Publication
- New York : Random House, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- 162 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of Styron's personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; a recollection of the power and ceremony on display at the inauguration of François Mitterrand; memoirs of Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark Twain; an account of Styron's daily walks with his dog; and an evocation of his summer home on Martha's Vineyard. Styron's essays touch on the great themes of his fiction--racial oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust--but for the most part they address other subjects: bowdlerizations of history, literary lists, childhood moviegoing, the censoring of his own work, and the pursuit of celebrity fetish objects.--From amazon.com.
- Subject
- Contents
- Havanas in Camelot -- A case of the great pox -- "I'll have to ask Indianapolis..." -- Les amis du President -- Celebrating Capote -- Jimmy in the house (James Baldwin) -- Transcontinental with Tex (Terry Southern) -- A literary forefather (Mark Twain) -- Slavery's pain, Disney's gain -- Too late for conversion or prayer -- Moviegoer -- Fessing up -- Walking with Aquinnah -- "In vineyard haven."
- Call Number
- JFD 08-4277
- ISBN
- 9781400067190 (alk. paper)
- 1400067197 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007028258
- OCLC
- 155127256
- Author
- Styron, William, 1925-2006.
- Title
- Havanas in Camelot : personal essays / William Styron.
- Imprint
- New York : Random House, c2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 08-4277