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Author QuotedWilliam Clark Styron
Title QuotedConfessions of Nat Turner
Date (Year/Month/Day)1968/01/05
Imprint[S.l.] : Random House. 1967
QuotationNat Turner is nothing but Styron's own complex loneliness as a Southern writer. A well-fashioned book, but little or nothing to do with the real Turner"”I have no sense that this fastidious and analytical mind is that of a prophet.
Quotation SourceThe Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 34
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