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A Stone Boat by Andrew Solomon
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The debut novel, first published nearly twenty years ago, from the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression and Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity--a luminous and moving evocation of the love between a son and his mother. A finalist f ...Show more
Far and Away by Andrew Solomon
$30.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
In 1991 Andrew Solomon faced down tanks in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the August coup. We find him on the quest for a rare bird in Zambia in 1998, and in Greenland in 2001 researching widespread depression among the Inuit. In 2002 he was in Afghanistan for the fall of the Taliban. ...Show more
Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years by Andrew Solomon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In 1991 Andrew Solomon rode a tank into Red Square in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the coup after Gorbachev's resignation. In 2002 he was in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban; in 2014 he travelled to Myanmar to meet ex-political prisoners as the country slowly, fitfully p ...Show more
Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. His proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autis ...Show more
Far from the Tree: Parents, children and the search for identity by Andrew Solomon
$28.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
Sometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it does? Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, A ...Show more
Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
$28.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
WITH 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 w ...Show more
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