Darkness Visible
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Apr '01
£9.99
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'Tremendous writing - honest and illuminating' Victoria Glendinning, New York Times
This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish.This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound insight and remarkable candor, Styron tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual, hard-won recovery. Illuminating an illness that affects millions but which remains widely misunderstood, this book is about the darkness of depression, but it is also ultimately about survival and redemption.
Hair-raising in the manner of A Tale of Horror by Edgar Allan Poe * Daily Telegraph *
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 *
ISBN: 9780099285571
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 6mm
Weight: 85g
112 pages