Details
Not Even Wrong
A Father's Journey into the Lost History of Autism|
11,51 € |
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| Verlag: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 11.12.2008 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781596917491 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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Beschreibungen
"e;Collins elucidates, with great compassion, what it means to be 'normal' and what it means to be human."e; -Los Angeles TimesWhen Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world. In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, Collins's travels take him from an English churchyard to the Seattle labs of Microsoft, and from a Wisconsin prison cell block to the streets of Vienna. It is a story that reaches from a lonely clearing in the Black Forest into the London palace of King George I, from Defoe and Swift to the discovery of evolution; from the modern dawn of the computer revolution to, in the end, the author's own household. Not Even Wrong is a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology - a meditation on what "e;normal"e; is, and how human genius comes to us in strange and wondrous forms.
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