Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness - Couverture souple

Styron, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679736395 ISBN 13 : 9780679736394

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

Synopsis

Darkness Visible A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'Tremendous writing. Honest and illuminating' 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. 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

See also: The Confessions of Nat Turner

Biographie de l'auteur

William Styron (1925-2006), a native of the Virginia Tidewater, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His books include Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, This Quiet Dust, Darkness Visible, and A Tidewater Morning. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the Légion d’Honneur, and the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. With his wife, the poet and activist Rose Styron, he lived for most of his adult life in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he is buried.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679736395
• ISBN 13: 9780679736394
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 96