{"title":"Books by Andrew Solomon","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780099460992","title":"Far From The Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it does? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, disability, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime and transgender people, Andrew Solomon documents ordinary people making courageous choices. Difference is potentially isolating, but \u003ci\u003eFar from the Tree \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates repeated triumphs of human love and compassion to show that the shared experience of difference is what unites us. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction and eleven other national awards. 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He takes us through the halls of mental hospitals where some of his subjects have been imprisoned for decades; into the research labs; to the burdened and afflicted poor, rural and urban. He talks to faith healers and voyages around the world in a quest for folk wisdom. He analyses the medications of today as well as reviewing the politics of diagnosis and treatment and, perhaps most significantly, he looks at the vital role of will and love in the process of recovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**ONE OF THE \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305203675509,"sku":"9781784702670","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784702670_d70a2352-f8bc-4790-aa06-a9d31e64a11e.jpg?v=1786025933"},{"product_id":"9780300280029","title":"Fortune of the Spirit – Robert Bergman","description":"A career-spanning examination of the work of Robert Bergman and its place within the history of American art    This unprecedented publication offers a detailed analysis of Robert Bergman’s psychologically penetrating art across the breadth of his career. Shaped by the vocabulary of painting as much as photography, Bergman’s often wrenching, beautifully evocative photographs tumble headlong into the emotional, physical, and mental struggles of living, challenging us to look deeply within ourselves and to reconsider how we relate to strangers. Long heralded by luminaries across different disciplines—including the author Toni Morrison, art historian Meyer Schapiro, and social activist Peter Gabel—Bergman’s images offer a counterpoint to contemporary society’s preoccupations with identity, division, and complaint.      Introducing the underground legend to a new generation, this volume presents the first full survey of Bergman’s work from the mid-1960s to the present, including many previously unpublished images, and essays from art historians, artists, and academics that contextualize the circumstances of Bergman’s life and work and examine how his pictorial representations resonate with the human experience.      Distributed for the Amon Carter Museum of American Art","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420356260213,"sku":"9780300280029","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780300280029_8a720911-896b-4250-ad23-1afea6e635dd.jpg?v=1786012124"},{"product_id":"far-and-away","title":"Far and Away","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1991 Andrew Solomon faced down tanks in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the August coup. We find him on the quest for a rare bird in Zambia in 1998, and in Greenland in 2001 researching widespread depression among the Inuit. In 2002 he was in Afghanistan for the fall of the Taliban. He was brought in for questioning in Qaddafi’s Libya in 2006. In 2014 he travelled to Myanmar to meet ex-political prisoners as the country fitfully pushed towards freedom. \u003ci\u003eFar and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAway \u003c\/i\u003etells these and many other stories. With his signature compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities shift when governments change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon chronicles a life’s travels to the nexus of hope, courage, and the uncertainty of lived experience and tracks seismic shifts – cultural, political and spiritual. He takes us on a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences via intimate, deeply moving stories that reveal and revel in our common humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487817474421,"sku":"9781784700720","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784700720.jpg?v=1786355041"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-andrew-solomon.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}