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 97
... night ... night . " " Good night ... night . All the parents went home , some with their children , some merely with light - hearted entreaties that Loftis not allow Jimmy or Betty to come home too late , and he and Dolly were alone ...
... night ... night . " " Good night ... night . All the parents went home , some with their children , some merely with light - hearted entreaties that Loftis not allow Jimmy or Betty to come home too late , and he and Dolly were alone ...
Page 98
... night . She knew he would kiss her again . Night enfolded them with the odor of pine and grass , the smell of sea , a vast low tide beyond the forest , where shells , rocks and sea things , sad as the universe , lay drowsing beneath the ...
... night . She knew he would kiss her again . Night enfolded them with the odor of pine and grass , the smell of sea , a vast low tide beyond the forest , where shells , rocks and sea things , sad as the universe , lay drowsing beneath the ...
Page 362
... night - we - LOVE ( while the moon is ) : then in my drowning soul the birds pranced solemnly across the plain and their feathers rustled flightless in the evening , but with a noise , like the chill , fretful chatter of katydids . How ...
... night - we - LOVE ( while the moon is ) : then in my drowning soul the birds pranced solemnly across the plain and their feathers rustled flightless in the evening , but with a noise , like the chill , fretful chatter of katydids . How ...
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