{"product_id":"book-avmt","title":"The Suicide Run","description":"Before writing his memoir of madness, \u003ci\u003eDarkness Visible\u003c\/i\u003e, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction–including \u003ci\u003eThe Confessions of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSophie’s Choice\u003c\/i\u003e. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. \u003cb\u003eThe Suicide Run\u003c\/b\u003e collects five of these meticulously rendered narratives. One of them–\u003ci\u003e“Elobey, Annobón, and Corisco”\u003c\/i\u003e–is published here for the first time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e“Blankenship,”\u003c\/i\u003e written in 1953, Styron draws on his stint as a guard at a stateside military prison at the end of World War II. \u003ci\u003e“Marriott, the Marine”\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e“The Suicide Run”\u003c\/i\u003e–which Styron composed in the early 1970s as part of an intended novel that he set aside to write \u003ci\u003eSophie’s Choice\u003c\/i\u003e–depict the surreal experience of being conscripted a second time, after World War II, to serve in the Korean War. \u003ci\u003e“My Father’s House” \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the isolation and frustration of a soldier trying to become a civilian again. In \u003ci\u003e“Elobey, Annobón, and Corisco,” \u003c\/i\u003ewritten late in Styron’s life, a soldier attempts to exorcise the dread of an approaching battle by daydreaming about far-off islands, visited vicariously through his childhood stamp collection.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the last volume from one of literature’s greatest voices, \u003ci\u003eThe Suicide Run \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to life the drama, inhumanity, absurdity, and heroism that forever changed the men who served in the Marine Corps.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49339934802224,"sku":"BDavmt","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/225894-avmt-Square.jpg?v=1734034146","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-avmt","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}