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Newspaper Article
For Styron's family, a darkness painfully visible
2011
Overview
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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New York Times Company
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