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Title:
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LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS
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By: |
William Styron |
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Paperback |
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£15.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0099284995 |
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9780099284994 |
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VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
3 August, 2000 |
Pages: |
400 |
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Tells the story of a tormented family submerged in infidelity and driven by a vengeful love that is blocked, hurt and perverted. |
Synopsis: |
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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UK |
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Vintage |
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