Depression : Vintage Minis

How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before.In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction.He lived to give us this gripping description of his descent into mental anguish, and his eventual success in overcoming a little-understood yet very common condition. The unabridged text of Darkness Visible by William StyronVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Swimming by Roger DeakinBabies by Anne EnrightCalm by Tim ParksWork by Joseph Heller