{"product_id":"the-red-arrow-9780593314432","title":"The Red Arrow","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Among the most accurate and insightful depictions of depression I've ever read.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Brewer's earnest description of psilocybin therapy turns a bravura comic novel into something deeper and stranger: an account of unexpected, hard-won joy.\" --\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn an attempt rid himself of \"The Mist,\" the young writer undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and finds his world completely transformed: Joy suffuses every moment. For the first time, he understands himself in a larger, universal context, and feels his life shift, refract, and crack open to reveal his past and future alike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving swiftly from a chemical spill in West Virginia to Silicon Valley, from a Brooklyn art studio to a high-speed train racing across the Italian countryside, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Arrow\u003c\/i\u003e wades into the shadowy depths of the human psyche only to emerge, as if speeding through a mile-long tunnel, into a world that is so bright and wondrous, it almost feels completely new.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM BREWER is the author of \u003ci\u003eI Know Your Kind, \u003c\/i\u003e a winner of the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e series. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. He lives in Oakland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50508982386962,"sku":"9780593314432","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9b745b07-50cc-4c80-9f56-ff1c12d728f9.jpg?v=1730884209","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-red-arrow-9780593314432","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}