The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 8th, 2001
Byline: ALICE FOWLER
Few people know depression with such cruel intimacy as Andrew Solomon.
Three times in the past seven years he has endured severe breakdowns. Then, as he struggled to keep his illness at bay, he began to explore it from a different, more scientific perspective. A graduate of Yale and Cambridge, he researched depression with academic rigour: his own and other people's, across time and cultures. The result is a book, The Noonday Demon, which combines philosophical, medical and historical insights with the most intimate personal revelation. It is a painfully honest, someti...
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