Review Of: The Noonday Demon
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.
Jun 2001
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.
Jun 2001
"The Noonday Demon" is a considerable accomplishment.... its generous assortment of voices, from the pathological to the philosophical, makes for rich, variegated reading.
Jun 2001
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.
Jun 2001
With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance...
May 2001
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.
May 2001
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.
Apr 2001
This compassionate work that never simplifies complex matters is essential for all collections.