Darkness Visible

William Styron · 1990

William Styron · 1990 · memoir · short read · Steady

A novelist's account of a severe depression that hit him at sixty: how it arrived, how it felt from inside, and how he recovered. Under a hundred pages and precise about something that is hard to put into words.

Worth knowing: Frank about severe depression and suicidal thinking. Read it on a steady day, not a heavy one.

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