Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
In 1985 William Styron fell victim to a crippling and almost suicidal depression, the same illness that took the lives ofRandall Jarrell,Primo LeviandVirginia Woolf.  That Styron survived his descent into madness is something of a miracle.  That he manages to convey its tortuous progression and his eventual recovery with such candor and precision makesDarkness Visiblea rare feat of literature, a book that will arouse a shock of recognition even in those readers who have been spared the suffering it describes.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.