The Confessions Of Nat Turner William Styron by William Styron 9781936317103, 1936317109, B00B06NAAA instant download after payment.

In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that peculiar institution. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that still sear the collective psyches of both races.

"In 1967, when William Styron’s novel The Confessions of Nat Turner was published, it briefly looked as if a white southern liberal might have found an ideal story to tell a country torn by racial strife. Styron’s subject was a little-known historical event: America’s bloodiest slave revolt. He recounted it in the imagined voice of the Virginia slave-turned preacher who had led the rebellion. And the novel’s first readers, who included some of the most discriminating literary minds of the time, were overwhelmed. “I was stunned by page ten,” John Cheever wrote Styron after reading an advance copy, “and this situation mounted until the end. I kept shouting . . . ‘He can’t keep this up, he can’t, he can’t,’ but up and up it went. It is what literature should be and is so seldom that I was incredulous. I think it is a work of genius.”  -  Sam Tanenhaud, Vanity Fair

William Styron (1925–2006), born in Newport News, Virginia, was one of the greatest American writers of his generation. Styron published his first book, Lie Down in Darkness, at age twenty-six and went on to write such influential works as the controversial and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner and the international bestseller Sophie’s Choice.