The Trail of the Bear

but a step removed from the "cosmicnloneliness" of Meursault, the hero ofnAlbert Camus' The Stranger, a novelnthat haunted Styron, he tells us, evennthough he did not read it until he wasnin his 30's. I find it interesting thatnwhen he set out to write The Confessionsnof Nat Turner, his best . . .