Like Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of depression. Solomon also portrays the pain of others, in different cultures and societies whose lives have been shattered[...]
Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, disability, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime and transgender people, this book documents ordinary people making courageous choice[...]
With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is tru[...]
* * * * * * * BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week * * * * * * * 'Andrew Solomon's investigation of many of the most intense challenges that parenthood can bring compels us all to re-examine how we understand human difference. Perhaps the greatest gift of this monumental book, full of facts and full of feel[...]
From the National Book Award winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find prof[...]
The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexitie[...]
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction prize, A Stone Boat is an achingly beautiful, deeply perceptive story of family, sexuality, and the startling changes wrought by grief, loss, and self-discovery.
Harry, an internationally celebrated young concert pianist, travels to Paris to con[...]
Andrew Solomon's National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression--"the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening" ("Time")--now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, sui[...]
Med utgangspunkt i egne erfaringer har den engelsk-amerikanske forfatteren Andrew Solomon (som tidligere har utgitt skjønnlitteratur) skrevet en bok om det vanskelige temaet depresjon. På kort tid har den etablert seg som en klassiker i dette feltet. Han gjør grundig greie for hva depresjon er, [...]
Combines guidance, case studies, and diagnostic tests to help you effectively diagnose Alzheimer's disease and other common dementias. This title covers the essentials of physical and cognitive examinations, laboratory and imaging studies, and the various treatment approaches.[...]