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The Suicide Run collects five of William Styron�s meticulously rendered narratives based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. In �Blankenship,� Styron draws on his stint as a guard at a stateside military prison at the end of World War II. �Marriott, the Marine� and �The Suicide Run��which Styron composed as part of an intended novel that he set aside to write Sophie�s Choice�depict the surreal experience of being conscripted a second time, after World War II, to serve in the Korean War. �My Father�s House� captures the frustration of a soldier trying to become a civilian again. In �Elobey, Annob�n, and Corisco,� a soldier attempts to exorcise the dread of an approaching battle by daydreaming about far-off islands, visited vicariously through his childhood stamp collection. Perhaps the last volume from one of literature�s greatest voices, The Suicide Run brings to life the drama, absurdity, and heroism that forever changed the men who served in the Marine Corps.