Andrew Solomon tells an exquisitely perceptive story of family, identity and the changes wrought by grief and loss. Harry, an internationally celebrated concert pianist, arrives in Paris to confront his glamorous mother about his homosexuality. Instead, he discovers she is terminally ill. In an attempt to escape his feelings of guilt and depression at the prospect of her death, he embarks on a series of intense love affairs that force him to question his sexual identity. But as time runs out and tragedy looms closer, it is the relationship between Harry and his mother that emerges in all its stark simplicity and purity. Part eulogy and part confession, "A Stone Boat" is a luminous and moving evocation of the love between a son and his mother.

A Stone Boat

Literature & Fiction

Andrew Solomon

Contemporary

Vintage Books USA

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy: Library Edition

A Mother's Reckoning

Sue Klebold

Parenting & Relationships

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Faber and Faber Limited

Winner of the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations -- around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incom-parable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.

The Noonday Demon

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Scribner

Far From The Tree A Dozen Kinds of Love

A brilliant and utterly original thinker, Andrew Solomon’s journey began from his experience of being the gay child of straight parents. He wondered how other families accommodate children who have a variety of differences: families of people who are deaf, who are dwarfs, who have Down syndrome, who have autism, who have schizophrenia, who have multiple severe disabilities, who are prodigies, who commit crimes, who are transgender. Bookended with Solomon’s experiences as a son, and then later as a father, this book explores the old adage that says the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree; instead some apples fall a couple of orchards away, some on the other side of the world.\nIn twelve sharply observed and moving chapters, Solomon describes individuals who have been heartbreaking victims of intense prejudice, but also stories of parents who have embraced their childrens’ differences and tried to change the world’s understanding of their conditions. Solomon’s humanity, eloquence, and compassion give a voice to those people who are never heard. A riveting, powerful take on a major social issue, Far from the Tree offers far-reaching conclusions about new families, academia, and the way our culture addresses issues of illness and identity.

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Chatto&Windus

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon (2001) Paperback

Chatto and Windus, London

Oleg Vassiliev was born in Moscow in 1931 and was one of the leading figures in the Russian "unofficial" art movement. Since 1990, the artist lives and works in New York. 
In his art Vassiliev combines the traditions of Russian Realism of the 19th century with the Russian avant-garde of the beginning of the 20th century. Vassiliev’s principal themes, which were born while he was in Russia and continue to the present day, are his memories of home and houses, roads, forests, fields, friends and family. 
Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations) reflects the artist’s career from 1949 to the present day.

Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations)

Amei Wallach

Yevgenia Petrova

Margarita Tupitsyn

Victor Tupitsyn

Ilya Kabakov

Eric Bulatov

Natalia Kolodzei

Arts & Photography

Palace Editions

A Stone Boat: A Novel

The Noonday Demon (Chinese Edition)

Psychology & Counseling

Shanghai Sanlian Culture Publishing House

Anatomia depresji: Demon w środku dnia

Wydawnictwo Zysk i S-ka

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