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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Page 24
... glass . Now she did something that she had done many times before . She pulled the skin of her face taut over the cheekbones so that the web of lines and wrinkles vanished as if it had been touched by a miraculous and re- storative wand ...
... glass . Now she did something that she had done many times before . She pulled the skin of her face taut over the cheekbones so that the web of lines and wrinkles vanished as if it had been touched by a miraculous and re- storative wand ...
Page 55
... glass with the faintest suggestion of a bow , and continued up the slope , feeling the glass a bit sticky , pleasurably warm from her hand . A few steps and he turned , contrite , looking at Pookie's and Helen's glasses : in his haste ...
... glass with the faintest suggestion of a bow , and continued up the slope , feeling the glass a bit sticky , pleasurably warm from her hand . A few steps and he turned , contrite , looking at Pookie's and Helen's glasses : in his haste ...
Page 308
... glass - littered tables and the chairs and the bewildered guests , as compliant and submissive as Mary's little lamb . He saw them go upstairs . Then Harry , too , was gone - somewhere , Loftis didn't know . Once he thought he saw him ...
... glass - littered tables and the chairs and the bewildered guests , as compliant and submissive as Mary's little lamb . He saw them go upstairs . Then Harry , too , was gone - somewhere , Loftis didn't know . Once he thought he saw him ...
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