Fiction: The Confessions of Nat Turner (Vintage International)
by William Styron
In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...Powerful, prize-winning 1967 novel depicts the odyssey of Nat Turner, leader of first slave revolt in the US. Styron`s novel was profoundly controversial; some felt that`s a white author had no right to the subject matter. By the acclaimed author of SOP Read more... |
