Lie down in darkness

William Styron

Original title: Lie down in Darkness

earliest edition we have, 1957 Vintage, 2000 paperback 400 pages

The story is set out in the south. The Loftis family members are waiting for the coffin of their daughter Peyton. The novel goes back in time through flashbacks and recollections uncovering truths and events leading to Peyton's suicide. Lie Down In Darkness is a post-modernist novel, a post-war account of the human state, an age of alienation, decay and meaninglessness. Neither society nor family nor religion nor ema...

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Editions we hold

Lie Down in Darkness paperback · 2000 · Vintage · 400 pages · 9780099284994
Lie down in darkness edition · 1992 · Vintage Books · 400 pages
Lie down in darkness. edition · 1991 · Picador · 431 pages
Lie down in darkness edition · 1984 · Black Swan · 431 pages
Lie down in darkness edition · 1980 · Corgi · 443 pages
Lie down in darkness edition · 1979 · Random House · 400 pages
Lie down in darkness. edition · 1970 · Cape
Lie Down in Darkness paperback · 1957 · Penguin (Non-Classics) · 9780670000180
Lie down in darkness edition · New American Library · 382 pages

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