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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A literary tour de force that chronicles a prize-winning author's descent into an almost suicidal depression.
"Compelling ... Harrowing ... a vivid portrait of a debilitating disorder ... It offers the solace of a shared experience."—The New York Times
A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his experience of crippling 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.
"Compelling ... Harrowing ... a vivid portrait of a debilitating disorder ... It offers the solace of a shared experience."—The New York Times
A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his experience of crippling 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.
- Print length96 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date8 January 1992
- ISBN-100679736395
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WILLIAM STYRON (1925-2006), a native of the Virginia Tidewater, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His books include Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, This Quiet Dust, Darkness Visible, and A Tidewater Morning. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the Légion d’Honneur, and the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. With his wife, the poet and activist Rose Styron, he lived for most of his adult life in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he is buried.
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- Language : English
- Paperback : 96 pages
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- Best Sellers Rank: 301,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Everyone who suffers from depression should read this little book!
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Written by one of America’s acclaimed authors (Sophie’s Choice), his personal struggle with depression and the trajectory of it and positive outcome is so powerful.
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This book is great describing the symptoms of depression in easily understandable concepts. It will be a guide to anyone who suffers from depression. Take control of your life again. You are not alone.
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Para entender la depresión más allá de lo que creemos que es o escuchamos o leemos en otros medios. Un libro necesario para quienes la padecen y para quienes conocen a gente que la padece. En lo personal me ha ayudado bastante. Es un libro que se lee rápido y es sencillo.
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It comes as no surprise that many a talented artist – writers, poets, musicians, playwrights etc. have often had their name scribbled crudely across the devil’s book for being loose around the edges, as if the contract for a consummate flair for the art is the pawning off of one’s sanity, as a matter of consideration or currency. While Styron mentions the likes of Plath, Hemingway, and Camus, more contemporary examples can be found in the dearly departed Chester Bennington, or Robin Williams.
Reading this book sparks interest in the work of some French crackerjacks. For example, Styron talked about Camus’ The Stranger, Baudelaire’s intimate journals, and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary – all sharing a common theme of death, depression, darkness. I bet those who have read these would be able to appreciate this memoir better. I certainly was.
“If our lives had no other configuration but this, we should want, and perhaps deserve, to perish; if depression had no termination, then suicide would, indeed, be the only remedy. But one need not sound the false or inspirational note to stress the truth that depression is not the soul's annihilation; men and women who have recovered from the disease--and they are countless--bear witness to what is probably its only saving grace: it is conquerable.”
That clinical depression is idiopathic and likely to be different in each of its victim, is sufficient reason to rebut the notion that it’s always conquerable, of course at the risk of sounding pessimistic. I applaud the late William Styron’s layman grasp of America’s neuropsychiatry especially in the 90s, and his insistence that hospitalization should never fall into the abyss of societal stigma.
A short and sweet memoir that people who don’t understand depression can benefit from reading. The prose is reminiscent of Ocean Vuong when he speaks.
Reading this book sparks interest in the work of some French crackerjacks. For example, Styron talked about Camus’ The Stranger, Baudelaire’s intimate journals, and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary – all sharing a common theme of death, depression, darkness. I bet those who have read these would be able to appreciate this memoir better. I certainly was.
“If our lives had no other configuration but this, we should want, and perhaps deserve, to perish; if depression had no termination, then suicide would, indeed, be the only remedy. But one need not sound the false or inspirational note to stress the truth that depression is not the soul's annihilation; men and women who have recovered from the disease--and they are countless--bear witness to what is probably its only saving grace: it is conquerable.”
That clinical depression is idiopathic and likely to be different in each of its victim, is sufficient reason to rebut the notion that it’s always conquerable, of course at the risk of sounding pessimistic. I applaud the late William Styron’s layman grasp of America’s neuropsychiatry especially in the 90s, and his insistence that hospitalization should never fall into the abyss of societal stigma.
A short and sweet memoir that people who don’t understand depression can benefit from reading. The prose is reminiscent of Ocean Vuong when he speaks.