Depression : Vintage Minis

Author: Styron, William

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Published on 8 June 2017 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) as part of 'the Vintage Minis' series.

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 StyronVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

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