The Red Arrow

The Red Arrow
William Brewer
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NZ$ 60.00
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NZ$ 48.00
Hardback
h218 x 142mm - 272pg
12 May 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529369670
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' 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. As the narrator untangles the past in his bid to rewrite the future, he spirals across time, exploring memory, our sense of self and the ways we are connected. A devastating insight into depression, it' s also a mind-expanding, exhilarating experience of the power of psychedelic therapy to transform a life.
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
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.

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