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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,
Paperback,
Vintage Books,
1992
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9780452261280,
Paperback,
Penguin USA,
1985
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9780670000180,
Paperback,
Penguin USA,
1957
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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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