The Suicide Runcollects five of William Styron's meticulously rendered narratives based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. In ';Blankenship,' Styron draws on his stint as a guard at a stateside military prison at the end of World War II. ';Marriott, the Marine' and ';The Suicide Run'which Styron composed as part of an intended novel that he set aside to write Sophie's Choicedepict the surreal experience of being conscripted a second time, after World War II, to serve in the Korean War. ';My Father's House' captures the frustration of a soldier trying to become a civilian again. In ';Elobey, AnnobAAAa AaAAaAa AaAAAAAaAA AAaAAAaAaAAAa AaAAaAAAaAA!AAAAAaAA!AAaAaAAn, and Corisco,' a soldier attempts to exorcise the dread of an approaching battle by daydreaming about far-off islands, visited vicariously through his childhood stamp collection. Perhaps the last volume from one of literature's...
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