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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

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Swimming by Roger Deakin
Babies by Anne Enright
Calm by Tim Parks
Work by Joseph Heller

Reviews

“ 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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Formats & editions

  • Paperback

    9781784872618

    May 29, 2017

    Vintage Classics

    96 pages

    RRP $7.99

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Also by William Styron

My Generation
Selected Letters Of William Styron
The Long March
The Suicide Run
The Confessions of Nat Turner
A Tidewater Morning
Set This House On Fire
William Styron
Darkness Visible
Sophie's Choice
Lie Down In Darkness
William Styron
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