Depression
vintage minis
$18.09
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
8 June 2017
Summary
Darkness Visible: A Descent into Depression
Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784872618 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 178487261X |
| Series: | Vintage Minis |
| Author: | William Styron |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 8 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 57g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 110mm x 5mm |
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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
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 *Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book. * Stylist *
About The Author
William Styron
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 also published Darkness Visible, the story of his descent into depression, the collection This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, and A Tidewater Morning. William Styron died in 2006.
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