Darkness Visible

Informationen zum Autor Born at 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 died in 2006. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: William Styron
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 05.04.2001
• Subject: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Fiction; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9780099285571
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928557-1
• Pages: 112
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 0.7 cm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fitness, Sport, Depression, biography, PSYCHOLOGY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Mental Health, Psychology, SELF-HELP / Self-Management / Stress Management, Nonfiction, Health, Autobiography, coping with stress, Self help, Recovery, Matt Haig, Literary, Anxiety, counselling, Sophie's Choice, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Virgin Suicides, Recovering, noonday demon, biographies and autobiographies, reasons to stay alive, here to stay, how to be alive, top 10 non-fiction, top ten non-fiction, anatomy of melancholy, human universe, Nat Turner, Frazzled, the suicide pact