Lie Down in Darkness: A NovelBobbs-Merrill, 1951 - 400 pages Styron's novels--such as Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice--have established him as a writer of international stature. Here he traces the betrayals, spite and disappointed love that afflict the members of a Southern family and that culminate in the suicide of the beautiful Peyton Loftis. |
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... door . Downstairs she heard the screen door slam , a noise of feet on the gravel walk . No one said a word . The limousine and the hearse pulled away from the curb , almost inaudibly , and down the driveway . The house was quiet then ...
... door . Downstairs she heard the screen door slam , a noise of feet on the gravel walk . No one said a word . The limousine and the hearse pulled away from the curb , almost inaudibly , and down the driveway . The house was quiet then ...
Page 358
... door- ways , slow - stirring and torpid like dozing cats ; I wanted another mar- tini but at Lennie's building I forgot about it . My heart was pound- ing so . I paused . A woman shook a blanket above , in a thicket of fire escapes ...
... door- ways , slow - stirring and torpid like dozing cats ; I wanted another mar- tini but at Lennie's building I forgot about it . My heart was pound- ing so . I paused . A woman shook a blanket above , in a thicket of fire escapes ...
Page 373
... door . I pressed the bell , heard it sound inside somber chimes - bing bong bong - staid and solemn , churchlike , outside my soul . " Who is it ? " I didn't answer , stood with my head against the door and listened to my heart's ...
... door . I pressed the bell , heard it sound inside somber chimes - bing bong bong - staid and solemn , churchlike , outside my soul . " Who is it ? " I didn't answer , stood with my head against the door and listened to my heart's ...
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