The Red Arrow

Hardback Published on: 12/05/2022
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The Red Arrow
Perfect Clarity
An excellent debut that has echoes of some of my favourite clever authors (Ben Lerner, Bolaño, Auster) whilst retaining an original voice. The constant be... READ MORE
Aaron Myles
The Red Arrow
Time flies like an arrow...
... and fruit flies like a banana. (A favourite joke from the late, great Sir Terry Wogan.) It's difficult to review this book, as it is a book to be expe... READ MORE
Libby at  Waterstones Craigavon
The Red Arrow
A unique and intriguing journey
A failed artist and writer travels to meet the person he is ghostwriting for and takes us through his life to this point. Multiple strands are woven tog... READ MORE
Ginny, Enfield

Synopsis

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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • ISBN: 9781529369670
  • Number of pages: 272
  • Dimensions: 218 x 144 x 34 mm
  • Weight: 380g
  • Languages: English

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The Red Arrow
Unconventional and interesting, but the story lacks that certain something.
The Red Arrow” is an unconventional novel about a man who is travelling to Modena, Italy to locate an unnamed physicist in order to ghostwrite his memoir. ... READ MORE
Wyn Lewis
The Red Arrow
This book paints a vivid picture of mental illness.
Easily one of the best portrayals of depression I've ever read, from the way it can wreck your life to the suicidal urges, it's terribly relatable. However... READ MORE
Charlie D. Ocean