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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
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
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
Synopsis
'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 Times
Publisher information
- Publisher: John Murray Press
- ISBN: 9781529369694
- Number of pages: 272
- Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 22 mm
- Weight: 200g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allUnconventional 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
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