A01=William Styron
anatomy of melancholy
anxiety
Author_William Styron
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depression
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Product details
- ISBN 9780099285571
- Weight: 880g
- Dimensions: 129 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 05 Apr 2001
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound insight and remarkable candor, Styron tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual, hard-won recovery. Illuminating an illness that affects millions but which remains widely misunderstood, this book is about the darkness of depression, but it is also ultimately about survival and redemption.
Born at Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut. He died in 2006.
