Jim's Reviews > A Tidewater Morning

A really fine small collection of short stories from a master writer, such that cause much envy in me because I wish I could pen similarly. And although the stories are situated from about 1935 to 1944, they are connected by the narrator, thinking back on life as a ten-year-old observing his neighbors and witnessing the arrival of an elderly ex-slave, thirteen-year-old paperboy contemplating his mother's illness, and a twenty-year-old Marine off the coast of Japan. Styron is recalling his youth in eastern Virginia near the military shipyards, and it definitely has an autobiographical feel. A really nice volume.