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The suicide run : five tales of the Marine Corps / William Styron ; edited by James L.W. West III.

by Styron, William, 1925-2006.

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Random House, c2009.

United States. Marine Corps -- Fiction.

Marines -- Fiction.

194 p. ; 22 cm.

Blankenship (1953) -- Marriott, the Marine (1971) -- The suicide run (1974) -- My father's house (1988) -- Elobey, Annobobon, and Corisco (1995)

Styron created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. The Suicide Run collects five of these meticulously rendered narratives. The stories depict the surreal experience of being conscripted a second time, after World War II, to serve in the Korean War and capture the isolation and frustration of a soldier trying to become a civilian again. In one story 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 greatest voices, The Suicide Run brings to life the drama, inhumanity, absurdity, and heroism that forever changed the men who served in the Marine Corps.

Military thriller.

West, James L. W.

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