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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

Door Andrew Solomon

Categorie
Psychologie
Boeknummer
#399959-XO19
Titel
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Auteur
Solomon, Andrew
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Vintage Books
Jaar van uitgave
2014
ISBN10
0099460998
ISBN13
9780099460992
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014** A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Sometimes 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? Drawing 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 Far from the Tree celebrates repeated triumphs of human love and compassion to show that the shared experience of difference is what unites us. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for... (Lees verder) General Non-fiction and eleven other national awards. Winner of the Green Carnation Prize.
Pagina's
960
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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