Andrew Solomon
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From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics' Circle Award-and one of the most original thinkers of our time-Andrew Solomon's magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays.
Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon's writings about places undergoing seismic shifts-political, cultural, and spiritual. From his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup...
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English
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With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon takes the listener on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews wit fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policymakers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers,...