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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... window like a tattered scarf and obscures the view . Now the sun is up and you can see the mist lifting off the fields and in the middle of the fields the solitary cabins with their slim threads of smoke unwinding out of plastered ...
... window like a tattered scarf and obscures the view . Now the sun is up and you can see the mist lifting off the fields and in the middle of the fields the solitary cabins with their slim threads of smoke unwinding out of plastered ...
Page 250
... window pane , found to his delight that he was still good - looking . Helen , he reflected , had said the same thing just last night during the recess of a Community Concert they had gone to , and it gave him pride to be able to confirm ...
... window pane , found to his delight that he was still good - looking . Helen , he reflected , had said the same thing just last night during the recess of a Community Concert they had gone to , and it gave him pride to be able to confirm ...
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... window ; the river could be seen from here , a motionless silver patch at its junction with the bay : on the distant ... windows , salty and faintly sulphurous from the rot of the marshes , but clean . At the railroad crossing the white ...
... window ; the river could be seen from here , a motionless silver patch at its junction with the bay : on the distant ... windows , salty and faintly sulphurous from the rot of the marshes , but clean . At the railroad crossing the white ...
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