Siss must try to cope with the loss of her friend without succumbing to a frozen world of her own making
stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994
The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry
a warning that feels increasingly relevant to our current moment
But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink
The Noonday Demon Alice Rawsthorn Siss must try to copeWITH 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