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The noonday demon by andrew solomon6/4/2023 The depth of human experience Solomon chronicles, the range of his intelligence, and his boundless curiosity and compassion will change the reader’s view of the world. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has had on various demographic populations around the world and throughout history. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policymakers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease. The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning. Solomon lives with his husband, John, and son, George, in New York and London and is a dual national. 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. Solomon’s memoir, The Noonday Demon (Scribner, 2001), won the 2001 National Book Award for Nonfiction, was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and is included in the London Times’ One Hundred Best Books of the Decade.
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