The confessions of Nat Turner / William Styron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Styron, William, 1925-2006.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831--Fiction.

Turner, Nat.

Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.

History.

Virginia--History--1775-1865--Fiction.

Virginia.

Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831--Fiction.

Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831.

Slave rebellions--Fiction.

Slave rebellions.

African American men--Fiction.

African American men.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Enslaved persons--Fiction.

Enslaved persons.

Genre:

Fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xviii, 455 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage international edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1993 [that is, 1992]

Summary:

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. The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. This story is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.

Contents:

Judgment day

Old times past, voices, dreams, recollections

Study war

"It is done ..."

Afterword: Nat Turner revisited.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Random House, 1967.

1968 Pulitzer Prize winner

ISBN:

0679736638

9780679736639

OCLC:

26159982

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