num_pages: 84
description: #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 TimesA 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.
language: English
title: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
titlecomplete: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
genres: Autobiography, Mental Health, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Biography, Health, Memoir, American, Nonfiction, Mental Illness
ratings_count: 28476
publisher: Vintage