The release date for the English version of 'The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression' by
Andrew Solomon is Jan 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Award-winning novelist Andrew Solomon takes the reader on an unparalleled breadth and resonance trip into the most ubiquitous of family secrets with unusual empathy, honesty, humor, and knowledge. It is rather astounding how much he has contributed to our knowledge of mental disease and the human condition.
The Noonday Demon looks at depression from a scientific, cultural, and personal perspective. Solomon describes the intricate complexity and pure misery of the condition by drawing on his own battles with it as well as conversations with other patients, physicians, scientists, politicians, medication inventors, and philosophers. In addition to discussing the wide variety of drugs that are now available, the effectiveness of alternative therapies, and the impact the condition has had on different demographic groupings throughout history and around the globe, he takes on the difficulty of defining the illness. He also delves into the complex area of moral and ethical dilemmas raised by newly discovered biological causes of mental illness.
The reader's perspective will be altered by Solomon's depth of human experience, his breadth of knowledge, and his unending curiosity and compassion.