Far from the Tree
Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Now in paperback, this is a seminal study of family, which tells the true stories of parents who learn to deal with their exceptional children and find profound meaning in doing so. Introduces the reader to families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, and disabilities. Also looks at child prodigies, children conceived by rape, and those who become criminals. '...a landmark, revolutionary book...' Jennifer Egan
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-09-946099-2
- EAN: 9780099460992
- Produktnummer: 15189267
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 976 S.
- Masse: H21.3 cm x B13.6 cm x D5.5 cm 1'135 g
- Gewicht: 1135
Über den Autor
Andrew Solomon is a writer and activist working on politics, culture and psychology. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, Newsweek, and the Guardian. He is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Cornell University and Special Adviser on LGBT Affairs to Yale University's Department of Psychiatry. The Noonday Demon won the 2001 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. His highly-acclaimed study of family, Far from the Tree won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction, the Lukas Book Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, among others. He lives with his husband and son in New York and London.
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