The Noonday Demon Alice Rawsthorn featuring the wordsmiths

featuring the wordsmiths

stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994

* Authenticity

all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone

Never before published

The Noonday Demon Alice Rawsthorn featuring the wordsmithsWITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR 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 by depression and uncovers the historical, social, biological, chemical and medical implications of this crippling