Depression

Informationen zum Autor William Styron Klappentext 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; and, Work by Joseph Heller. Zusammenfassung How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, he describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction.

Product details

• Authors: William Styron
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2017
• EAN: 9781784872618
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-261-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 178 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Vintage Minis; Vintage Classics; Vintage Minis
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Psychology, SELF-HELP / Mood Disorders / Depression, coping with stress, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Autobiography: literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Autobiography: writers