# Lie Down In Darkness

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- Authors: [William Styron](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-styron)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2000-08-03

## Description

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'.

## Editions

### Lie Down In Darkness

- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-499-4
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2000-08-03
- Language: en_GB

### Lie Down in Darkness

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7973-597-7
- Pages: 416
- Published: 1992-03-03
- Language: en_US