{"product_id":"2940169264173","title":"The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178561421552,"sku":"2940169264173","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169264173_p0.jpg?v=1763677298","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169264173","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}