'Insightful and often hilarious . . . a dazzling head-trip of a novel' Nathan Hill, author of The Nix ; A mind-expanding, hypnotic novel about depression, psychedelics and, finally love, for fans of W. G. Sebald and Ben Lerner.
A mind-expanding, hypnotic novel about depression, psychedelics and, finally love, for fans of W. G. Sebald and Ben Lerner.
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'Insightful and often hilarious . . . a dazzling head-trip of a novel' Nathan Hill, author of The Nix ; A mind-expanding, hypnotic novel about depression, psychedelics and, finally love, for fans of W. G. Sebald and Ben Lerner.
A mind-expanding, hypnotic novel about depression, psychedelics and, finally love, for fans of W. G. Sebald and Ben Lerner.
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'Insightful and often hilarious . . . a dazzling head-trip of a novel' Nathan Hill, author of The Nix
When a once-promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicist's memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt, he's grown distant from his wife - asuccessful AI designer - and is haunted by an overwhelming sense of dread he describes as 'The Mist'. Then, things get worse. The physicist vanishes, leaving everything in limbo, including our narrator's sanity.'Exquisite . . . Brewer's evocation of the Mist is among the most accurate and insightful depictions of depression I've ever read' Los Angeles TimesCritic Reviews
“The Red Arrow feels like a book that's gently tapping on your brain from a different dimension. It's an astonishing portrait of a distressed mind searching for peace and hope and harmony, and finding it in the most sublime of places. Deeply insightful and often hilarious, it's a dazzling head-trip of a novel, and a profound delight”
The Red Arrow feels like a book that's gently tapping on your brain from a different dimension. It's an astonishing portrait of a distressed mind searching for peace and hope and harmony, and finding it in the most sublime of places. Deeply insightful and often hilarious, it's a dazzling head-trip of a novel, and a profound delight -- Nathan Hill, author of THE NIX
Exceptional . . . deeply moving -- Fiona Mozley
About the Author
William Brewer is the author of I Know Your Kind, a winner of the National Poetry Series. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford. He lives in Oakland.
'It was a strange time. He felt like he was happy. It was strange because it wasn't so long ago that he was convinced the only way out of the depression that had crippled him since he was a child, was death.' But now, he is on a high-speed train travelling from Rome to Modena, a failed novelist on the tail of a famous physicist whose memoir he is ghostwriting. The more of another man's life he writes, the more his debt to his publisher is paid off. But nothing would be possible, not the journey, not the writing, not his beautiful wife who is waiting for him at the hotel, had he not experienced the life-altering, life-saving treatment for the darkness which had been hovering since the chemical spill in West Virginia.
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