Depression: Vintage Minis

Author(s): William Styron

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How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to give us this gripping description of his descent into mental anguish, and his eventual success in overcoming a little-understood yet very common condition. The unabridged text of Darkness Visible by William Styron VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series- Swimming by Roger Deakin Babies by Anne Enright Calm by Tim Parks Work by Joseph Heller

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"As short as a hangman's rope and nearly as arresting - an essay of great gravity and resonance. Never has Styron used so few words so effectively" Newsweek

Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut. He is the author of The Long March, Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire and Sophie's Choice. He has also published Darkness Visible, the remarkable story of his descent into depression, the collection This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, and A Tidewater Morning. William Styron died in 2006.

General Fields

  • : 9781784872618
  • : Random House
  • : Vintage Classic
  • : 0.057
  • : June 2017
  • : 180mm X 110mm X 5mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2017
  • : February 2023
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : William Styron
  • : Paperback
  • : 617
  • : English
  • : 616.85270092
  • : 96