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In this novel, the South looms dark and ominous in the background with its Biblical rhetoric, its conflict between a tradition of religious fundamentalism and modern scepticism, racial contrasts and the industrialisation of a rural society. But more than a novel of time and place, it is the story of a tormented family submerged in infidelity and driven by a vengeful love that is blocked, hurt and perverted. Peyton Loftis, who frantically needs a husband precisely because she loves her father; the decadent Milton, whose infidelity has made his marriage no more than a stage drama; and Helen, his wife, who loves only what she can control - her crippled daughter Maudie, or the childish part of her husband. This extraordinarily powerful novel is the portrait of a family who, in the words of Sir Thomas Browne in his "Urn Burial", 'all lie down in darkness'.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Lie Down In Darkness
• Author: William Styron
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780099284994
• ISBN: 0099284995
• ID: 04491619
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 294 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 130 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. July 2000

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