VINTAGE CLASSICS : THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER PB – WILLIAM STYRON

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that peculiar institution . William Styron s ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner s confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery – and that still sear the collective psyches of both races.