Depression

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. n n The unabridged text of Darkness Visible by William Styron n n VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. n n A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human n n Also in the Vintage Minis series: n Swimming by Roger Deakin n Babies by Anne Enright n Calm by Tim Parks n Work by Joseph Heller n