Reviews: All Books

You cannot fail to be humbled, moved and in some way renewed by The Noonday Demon. It is at once erudite, personable and profoundly challenging.

Much of what Solomon relays is both heart-rending and fascinating; the book has a scope and passionate intelligence that give it intrigue as well as heft.

With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance...

Solomon... is acutely aware of the contradictions at every turn of his tale, and the investigative reporter in him overrides the easier impulse to self-dramatisation.

Depression is a country that the undepressed can't enter, but Solomon, who has travelled there and knows it well, bends all his energy and talent as a writer to sending us snapshots from this terrifying land.

This compassionate work that never simplifies complex matters is essential for all collections.

Solomon's story, of a young man loving his mother and losing her to cancer, sidesteps the cliches... Solomon's greatest triumph in this first novel is his sympathy.

The contrast between the idyllic existence money can buy and the inexorable ugliness of death is poignantly obvious. Harry's struggle to cope with his parent's impending death is observed with passion and conviction.

Love and death make dramatic entrances in this elegiac first novel... An elegant and moving examination of a difficult subject.

Andrew Solomon's first novel, "A Stone Boat," is a shimmering remembrance of things past and a meditation on love and death.