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 254
... lips struggled for speech , it had a throat that lived . Loftis remembered , gazing at Helen . Was she trying to say something ? He couldn't tell , because the light was fading from the room . She cleared her throat , something trembled ...
... lips struggled for speech , it had a throat that lived . Loftis remembered , gazing at Helen . Was she trying to say something ? He couldn't tell , because the light was fading from the room . She cleared her throat , something trembled ...
Page 283
... lips . But along with her smile there was some- thing else he was conscious of , too : she had already drunk too much . Her face rubbed pink as if by a scrubbing brush , she glowed with a fever , and in the way her eyes sparkled , her lips ...
... lips . But along with her smile there was some- thing else he was conscious of , too : she had already drunk too much . Her face rubbed pink as if by a scrubbing brush , she glowed with a fever , and in the way her eyes sparkled , her lips ...
Page 360
... lips , perplexed and concerned . He put out a bony hand . " Dear gull-- " but I pulled open the door and went out into the street . Heat smoldered in the air like a living flame . The children had gone , and the mother . Pigeons clucked ...
... lips , perplexed and concerned . He put out a bony hand . " Dear gull-- " but I pulled open the door and went out into the street . Heat smoldered in the air like a living flame . The children had gone , and the mother . Pigeons clucked ...
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