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How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to
In post-war Brooklyn, three lives are drawn together by love, guilt and an unbearable secret. In the summer of 1947, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two-year-old Southerner, arrives at a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a
Sommeren 1947 på et billigt pensionat i Brooklyn. Stingo, en håbefuld ung forfatter fra Virginia, begynder at skrive på sin første bog. Hans fantasi stimuleres betydeligt af en voldsomt knirkende seng i værelset ovenpå. Der elsker den smukke polske Sophie
This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound insight and remarkable candor, Styron tracks the progress
The story that inspired the major motion picture The Birth of a Nation (2016) In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery... The re
The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter--both in their violence and in their maddening unreality. The blaze of events which followed was, Pete