Alexandra Styron
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Alexandra Styron's parents - the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice and his political activist wife, Rosewere, for half a century, leading players on the world's cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father's brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. From Styron's youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father...
Author
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Abbie Hoffman's radical classic, Steal This Book, author Alexandra Styron's stirring call for resistance and citizen activism will be clearly heard by young people who don't accept "it is what it is," who want to make sure everybody gets an equal piece of the American pie, and who know that the future of the planet is now.
Styron's irreverent and informative primer on how to make a difference is organized into three sections: The Why,...
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