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Lie Down in Darkness

by William Styron


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LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS is Styron's first novel. In this saga about a genteel Southern family, he exposes the coldness and betrayal that lurk behind the family's official facade, ending in the suicide of young Peyton Loftis.


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9780679735977 9780679735977, Paperback, Vintage Books, 1992

$5.35 (Good)

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9780452261280 9780452261280, Paperback, Penguin USA, 1985

$1.00 (Used, Very Good)

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9780670000180 9780670000180, Paperback, Penguin USA, 1957

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9780394506593 9780394506593, Hardcover, Random House Inc, 1979

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Publisher Notes

As Milton Loftis follows the hearse in which his beautiful daughter, Peyton, is being carried to the grave, a story unfolds about the degeneration of a tormented Southern family submerged in infidelity and vengeful love.

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"...I thought William Styron's 'Lie Down in Darkness' an extraordinary thing. The start of it took your heart and flung it over there. He writes like a god."

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