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 84
... took a short cut through the golf museum , the pride of the club - a spacious sunny room that opened on the terrace - where , neatly arranged in sparkling rows , were the mashies and niblicks and putters used by Bobby Jones and Tommy ...
... took a short cut through the golf museum , the pride of the club - a spacious sunny room that opened on the terrace - where , neatly arranged in sparkling rows , were the mashies and niblicks and putters used by Bobby Jones and Tommy ...
Page 106
... took them to the poet - three hundred sonnets in a purple binder - not so much for appraisal as for admiration . What a mistake it was ! The poet was a petulant and whalelike man who had resolved most of his problems in eating and in ...
... took them to the poet - three hundred sonnets in a purple binder - not so much for appraisal as for admiration . What a mistake it was ! The poet was a petulant and whalelike man who had resolved most of his problems in eating and in ...
Page 347
... took my hand and the Italian came up to wipe off the spilled espresso with a palsied hand , and Harry said , " You will never die , you are the love that moves the sun and other stars . " I thought of death and slumber , and I took my ...
... took my hand and the Italian came up to wipe off the spilled espresso with a palsied hand , and Harry said , " You will never die , you are the love that moves the sun and other stars . " I thought of death and slumber , and I took my ...
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