LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS (400 pp.)William StyronBobbs-Merrill ($3.50).
William Styron is a 26-year-old Virginian who has just written his first novel. To his publishers, Lie Down in Darkness "is a major novel by a major novelist . . . an event comparable to the publication in 1929 of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel." While Novelist Styron does not live up to that billing, he shows enough talent to prove that the South has raised another good writing man.
The rest of the news about Styron is that he is one more recruit for the dread-despair-and-decay camp of U.S. letters. This time, decay hits...
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