Lie Down In Darkness Paperback / softback
by William Styron
Paperback / softback
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In this novel, the South looms dark and ominous in the background with its Biblical rhetoric, its conflict between a tradition of religious fundamentalism and modern scepticism, racial contrasts and the industrialisation of a rural society.
But more than a novel of time and place, it is the story of a tormented family submerged in infidelity and driven by a vengeful love that is blocked, hurt and perverted.
Peyton Loftis, who frantically needs a husband precisely because she loves her father; the decadent Milton, whose infidelity has made his marriage no more than a stage drama; and Helen, his wife, who loves only what she can control - her crippled daughter Maudie, or the childish part of her husband.
This extraordinarily powerful novel is the portrait of a family who, in the words of Sir Thomas Browne in his URN BURIAL, 'all lie down in darkness'.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:03/08/2000
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- ISBN:9780099284994
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:03/08/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099284994