Depression
  • Published: 29 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872618
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $7.99

Depression

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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 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 Styron

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  • Published: 29 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872618
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $7.99
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Karl Ove Knausgaard
Death
Julian Barnes
Depression
William Styron
Calm
Tim Parks
Babies
Anne Enright
Sisters
Louisa May Alcott
Eating
Nigella Lawson
Desire
Haruki Murakami
Drinking
John Cheever
Language
Xiaolu Guo
Liberty
Virginia Woolf
Home
Salman Rushdie
Race
Toni Morrison
Love
Jeanette Winterson
Swimming
Roger Deakin
Freedom
Margaret Atwood
Marriage
Jane Austen
Friendship
Rose Tremain
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis
War
Sebastian Faulks
Dreams
Sigmund Freud
Rave
Irvine Welsh
Money
Yuval Noah Harari
Injustice
Richard Wright
Ghosts
M. R. James

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 has also published Darkness Visible, the remarkable story of his descent into depression, the collection This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, and A Tidewater Morning. William Styron died in 2006.

Also by William Styron

My Generation
This Quiet Dust
Selected Letters of William Styron
The Long March
The Suicide Run
Havanas in Camelot
The Confessions of Nat Turner
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Praise for Depression

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.

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