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POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL The truth taints the memory of a make-believe childhood
In Styron's novel - her first - [Louise] is black, [Addy] is white. Louise is poor, Addy's family is rich. Louise has suffered, Addy's parents - a neurasthenic movie actress and a left-wing philosopher - are mostly insufferable. As the book opens, a grownup Addy travels to St. Clair for Louise's funeral. The story has all the makings of a by- the-white-liberal-guilt-numbers melodrama. Sometimes that's what it becomes.
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Andy's Choice ; PRINCE'S DATE WITH FILM AUTHOR'S DAUGHTER
Friends revealed the couple enjoyed an intimate dinner together, went to a party and also attended a concert on the island. One said: \"[Alexandra Styron] and [Andrew] certainly got on very well indeed. Andrew, a house guest of banker Sir Evelyn Rothschild and his girlfriend Lynn Forester, teamed up with Alexandra again at Sir Evelyn's 68th birthday party. CHAPTER 1: Prince Andrew's American date Alexandra drives him to the airport on Martha's Vineyard, where he bids her a fond farewell Pictures: ANGIE COQUERAN; CHAPTER 2: Last look to her before boarding; CHAPTER 3: Sad Alexandra sees Andrew go
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Styron's daughter pens memoir
It was, as his youngest daughter, [Alexandra Styron], writes in a compelling new memoir, \"Reading My Father,\" before Kay Jamison, Andrew Sullivan or other fellow sufferers had journeyed \"back from the fresh hell of depression with any cogent field notes.\" The elder Styron did not just suffer from the absent-minded navel-gazing one might expect of a writer. He had a mean streak, evident in the horror stories he told her, including one about a homicidal maniac who stashed his victims' remains in the attic of their rural farmhouse. Another time, he glanced up from his paper and told the little girl he called \"Al\" or \"Albert\" - a pony owner, passionate about riding - that the Connecticut governor had banned horses and theirs would have to go to the glue factory.
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For Styron's family, a darkness painfully visible
A ferocious social whirl spun over the Styron siblings' heads. Their parents' dinner parties were renowned. \"People came from great distances for an evening at the Styrons,\" Ms. Styron writes, summoning \"the candlelit table groaning with food; great, running rivers of alcohol; and guest lists that were rarely less than Olympian.\" Ms. Styron does not sugarcoat this material. She cautions those who would romanticize her family's bumpy life. Don't make the mistake of believing that her house \"was a Roald Dahl sort of place,\" she writes, \"and that Daddy, curmudgeonly and outrageous, was still at the core a comic figure.\" That, she says, \"really couldn't have been further from the truth.\" You stick with \"Reading My Father\" not for this overview but for the restrained agility of Ms. Styron's own prose. She catches how, in his satyric appearance -- \"hooded eyes, shirts unbuttoned to the navel\" -- Styron seemed to be \"telegraphing his other, more private life.\" (His one marriage lasted more than 50 years, until his death, but he had many affairs.)
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WILLIAM STYRON, 81, AUTHOR OF SOPHIE'S CHOICE
Styron's early work, including Lie Down in Darkness, won him recognition as a distinctive voice of the South and an heir to William Faulkner. In subsequent fiction, like the critical and commercial success Sophie's Choice, he transcended his background and moved across cultural lines. Critics and readers alike ranked him among the best of the generation that succeeded Hemingway and Faulkner. Lie Down in Darkness, published in 1951, was a brooding, lyrical meditation on a young Southern girl's suicide, as viewed during her funeral by members of her family and their friends. The book established Styron as a writer to be watched.
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