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Born at Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut. He died in 2006.

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Hair-raising in the manner of A Tale of Horror by Edgar Allan Poe * Daily Telegraph *
As short as a hangman's rope and nearly as arresting - an essay of great gravity and resonance. Never has Styron used so few words so effectively * Newsweek *

Darkness Visible

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 5 April 2001
      ISBN-13 9780099285571
      978-0099285571
      ISBN-10 0099285576
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Born at Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut. He died in 2006.

      Trade Review
      Hair-raising in the manner of A Tale of Horror by Edgar Allan Poe * Daily Telegraph *
      As short as a hangman's rope and nearly as arresting - an essay of great gravity and resonance. Never has Styron used so few words so effectively * Newsweek *

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