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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 Styron

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