A Tidewater Morning

Three Tales from Youth

by William Styron

Styron calls these three stories--all of which take place in the Virginia Tidewater of the 1930s--"an imaginative shaping of real events." They include the reminiscences of a Marine about to participate in the invasion of Japan, a child recalling the last day of a former slave he knew, and the death of a young teenager's mother from agonizing cancer.

Editions of A Tidewater Morning

ISBN 9780679427421	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1993	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780679429630	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1993	Price $10.00	As New in As New dust jacket
ISBN 9780679754497	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Vintage Books	Date 1994	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9781568950488	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Wheeler Pub Inc	Date 1993	Price $2.49	Good

Publisher Notes

In these stories - never before published in book form - William Styron focuses his unmatched talents on matters that have preoccupied him during much of his adult writing career. Although their immediate subjects are different - a young Marine about to invade Japan in World War II remembers the role his father played in building one of the ships; a child recalls what happened when a former slave came home to die in the place where he was born; a boy describes the hot summer day on which his mother died, changing his life forever - the stories are told in the voice of the same narrator, who remembers vividly his youth in a tidewater town in Virginia. A Tidewater Morning is written with the power and distinction of a writer who occupies a preeminent place in modern American literature.