Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

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A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron s true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression s psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery.In 1985 William Styron fell victim to a crippling and almost suicidal depression, the same illness that took the lives of Randall Jarrell, Primo Levi and Virginia Woolf. That Styron survived his descent into madness is something of a miracle. That he manages to convey its tortuous progression and his eventual recovery with such candor and precision makes Darkness Visible a rare feat of literature, a book that will arouse a shock of recognition even in those readers who have been spared the suffering it describes.