One of the best books I’ve read in the past few years. A first-hand recollection of the depression that brought the author within an inch of suicide. Intense, gruelling, sad, eye-opening.

From Weekly Filet #12, in March 2011.

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

William Styron

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