Darkness Visible
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Darkness Visible
By (Author) William Styron
Vintage Publishing
Vintage Classics
4th May 2001
5th April 2001
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Popular psychology
813.54
Physical Properties
Paperback
112
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
87g
Description
In the summer of 1985 William Styron was overtaken by persistent insomnia and a troubling sense of malaise - the first signs of a deep depression that would engulf his life and leave him on the brink of suicide. Darkness Visible takes us on an unprecedented journey into the realm of madness. It is an intimate portrait of the agony of Styron's ordeal, as well as a probing look at an illness that affects millions but is still widely misunderstood. Through his remarkable candour and powers of description comes a true understanding of the anguish of a desperate mind. Darkness Visible is a bold and an ultimately uplifting exploration of depression's dark reality.
Reviews
"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
Author Bio
Born at 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 died in 2006.
