The Noonday Demon
by Andrew Solomon
Taste attributes: documentarypsychologicalbiographyslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticlinearemotive & stirringhuman spirit/resilience/survivalself destruction/implosionsocial commentary
Boxlist takeExpect a realistic, serious non-fiction book, fresh rather than familiar. Best if you like depth over escapism.
Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.3 / 5
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About This Book
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 complexities and sheer agony of the disease as well as the reasons for hope.
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- Andrew Solomon
- Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 576
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