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 220
... remembered sunlight , remembered leaves , something : they didn't know . A smile came to her lips but vanished , and she turned again , pointing at them . She said something about a man named Bennie . His name was Bennie . At least ...
... remembered sunlight , remembered leaves , something : they didn't know . A smile came to her lips but vanished , and she turned again , pointing at them . She said something about a man named Bennie . His name was Bennie . At least ...
Page 254
... remembered , left alone among the woods of his child- hood somewhere - he could not remember - overgrown by ferns and laurel in a damp place where toadstools grew in a fairy ring . Time had not effaced its loveliness so much as rain ...
... remembered , left alone among the woods of his child- hood somewhere - he could not remember - overgrown by ferns and laurel in a damp place where toadstools grew in a fairy ring . Time had not effaced its loveliness so much as rain ...
Page 364
... remembered him , before it really got bad : " I hate to bring it up , darling , but you'll have to be more careful with the dough , I hate to say it , darling , but it all becomes part of the syndrome , along with the dirt beneath the ...
... remembered him , before it really got bad : " I hate to bring it up , darling , but you'll have to be more careful with the dough , I hate to say it , darling , but it all becomes part of the syndrome , along with the dirt beneath the ...
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