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William Styron 1990

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
depression memoir mental health illness

Our Take

Styron's account of his severe depression is still the best description of the disorder in literary form — not because it is scientific but because it renders the inside of it in language that non-sufferers can almost enter. The suicide attempt he does not make is described with more precision than most that are.

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