Far From the Tree
Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon's "Far from the Tree" explores how parents find profound meaning in raising exceptional children, highlighting love's triumph over prejudice.
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ISBN/EAN | 9780743236720 |
Auteur | Andrew Solomon |
Uitgever | Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V. |
Taal | Engels |
Uitvoering | Paperback / gebrocheerd |
Pagina's | 976 |
Lengte | 235.0 mm |
Breedte | 155.0 mm |
Andrew Solomon is a professor of psychology at Columbia University, president of PEN American Center, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker , NPR, and The New York Times Magazine . A lecturer and activist, he is the author of Far and Away: Essays from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years ; the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which has won thirty additional national awards ; and The Noonday Demon; An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. He has also written a novel, A Stone Boat , which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost . His TED talks have been viewed over ten million times. He lives in New York and London and is a dual national. For more information, visit the author’s website at AndrewSolomon.com.