<p>How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to give us this gripping description of his descent into mental anguish, and his eventual success in overcoming a little-understood yet very common condition.<br><br>The unabridged text of <i>Darkness Visible</i> by William Styron<br><br><b>VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.</b><br><br>A series of short books by the world¿s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human<br><br>Also in the Vintage Minis series:<br><i>Swimming </i>by Roger Deakin<br><i>Babies</i> by Anne Enright<br><i>Calm </i>by Tim Parks<br><i>Work </i>by Joseph Heller</p>