The Red Arrow
(Paperback)
Available Formats
Hardback
Published: 12th May 2022
Paperback
Published: 12th May 2022
Paperback
Published: 13th June 2023
Publishing Details
The Red Arrow
By (Author) William Brewer
John Murray Press
John Murray Publishers Ltd
13th June 2023
16th March 2023
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Narrative theme: Interior life
813.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
272
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 22mm
200g
Description
'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 TimesReviews
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
Author Bio
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.
