Beschreibung
Das Sprichwort sagt, dass der Apfel nicht weit vom Stamm fällt, aber was ist, wenn doch? Wie gehen Eltern mit Kindern um, die außergewöhnlich sind und so ganz anders als sie selbst? Andrew Solomon hat viele betroffene Familien untersucht und kommt zu erstaunlichen Ergebnissen. Stories of parents who learn to deal with their exceptional children and find profound meaning in doing so. Nominiert für den Samuel Johnson Prize 2012.
Produktsicherheitsverordnung
Hersteller:
Random House Book Group Ltd.
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Importeur:
Petersen Buchimport GmbH
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Autorenportrait
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.
