The novelist William Styron realized during the summer of 1984, when he was 60 years old, that the joylessness, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts he had been experiencing were not simply part of an episode of harmless melancholy, but the marks of a severe and terrifying depression (he calls it "madness") that had become debilitating. As he chronicles the history of his illness, and looks for parallels in his family and in the lives of other writers, Styron finds the strength to overcome it through hospitalization and drug ...
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The novelist William Styron realized during the summer of 1984, when he was 60 years old, that the joylessness, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts he had been experiencing were not simply part of an episode of harmless melancholy, but the marks of a severe and terrifying depression (he calls it "madness") that had become debilitating. As he chronicles the history of his illness, and looks for parallels in his family and in the lives of other writers, Styron finds the strength to overcome it through hospitalization and drug therapy--and, in the end, to write about it in this powerful reminiscence. DARKNESS VISIBLE was a bestseller when it was published in 1990, hailed by the many sufferers from depression who had not, at that point, found a description of their ordeal written with such immediacy and understanding.
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Add this copy of Trout (2 Volumes) to cart. $85.00, very good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Andre Deutsch.
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Very Good. Size: 0x0x0; 2 volumes. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Lacks slip case. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Add this copy of Trout to cart. $753.00, very good condition, Sold by Aquila Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Calgary, AB, CANADA, published 1979 by Andre Deutsch.
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Very good. 1st limted edition. xvi, [2], 878; 1p.l., 879-1745pp. Two volumes Quarto in blue cloth and greay cloth covered slipcase. Colour plates and B&W illustrations in text from drawings. A very attractive clean copy without the usual fading of spines. No. 445 of the Deluxe Edition limted to 750 copies signed by the author and complete with speciment fly inset into a window mount in the front endpaper. much scarcer and nicer example of this corner stone book!
