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Confessions of Nat Turner

Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron
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Rough cut, else contents appear as new, unread & unblemished in fine black cloth covered, gold gilt, boards. DJ displays moderate surface/edge/wear, as shown, with repaired closed chipping. Styron's "Confessions" delves deep into the psychology behind Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt. Almost unbearable in its graphic violence and Biblically-dimensioned heartbreak, the novel has Turner telling the whole story in painfully honest detail. Styron neither defends Turner nor paints him as crazy; he is less interested in pointing out right or wrong than in trying to understand the broad ironies of the system of slavery and its effects on the people who ran it and were subject to it. Styron's Nat Turner is a man who is both educated and destroyed by his masters; he is both uplifted and misled by the Bible. His hatred is not fueled by the hatred of whites, but by the pity of whites. And when he kills, he is only able to commit one physical murder, though he takes responsibility for 60. First edition of Styron's… Read More
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