The Red Arrow
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The Red Arrow by William Brewer
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 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.Among the most accurate and insightful depictions of depression I've ever read. --Los Angeles Times Brewer's earnest description of psilocybin therapy turns a bravura comic novel into something deeper and stranger: an account of unexpected, hard-won joy. --Vogue In an attempt rid himself of The Mist, the young writer undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and finds his world completely transformed: Joy suffuses every moment. For the first time, he understands himself in a larger, universal context, and feels his life shift, refract, and crack open to reveal his past and future alike. Moving swiftly from a chemical spill in West Virginia to Silicon Valley, from a Brooklyn art studio to a high-speed train racing across the Italian countryside, The Red Arrow wades into the shadowy depths of the human psyche only to emerge, as if speeding through a mile-long tunnel, into a world that is so bright and wondrous, it almost feels completely new.
William Brewer is the author of Oxyana, which won a National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America. His poetry has been or will appear in a variety of publications, including Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Nation, and A Public Place. Brewer is now a Stanford University Stegner Fellow. West Virginia is where he was born and reared.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593320129 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593320123 |
| Title | The Red Arrow |
| Author | William Brewer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2022-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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