Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
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Köp båda 2 för 487 krThe tales Solomon returns with, of profound disability and extreme differences overcome, make it a bible of empathy and inclusion -- Cressida Connolly * Spectator * Andrew Solomons Far From The Tree is a prodigious, illuminating book about the challenge of being a parent especially when children are out of the ordinary -- Tim Adams * Observer * Life-affirming, thought provoking and highly readable, the book was compiled over 10 years of interviews and I found it deeply moving -- Kate Kellaway * Observer * Many accounts are desperately moving, but Solomon goes far beyond cheap pity... The book is an exquisite written study of parental love as well as "a how-to manual for receptivity" -- Kerry Hudson * Herald * [A] magnificent study of disability and identity differences -- Susannah Meadows * New York Times * This wise book is a careful and surprising study of difference between parent and child and how it shapes our lives -- Stephen Grosz * Sunday Telegraph * For anyone struggling with decisions over parenting, its an affirming reminder that there is no such thing as normal -- Femke Colborne * Big Issue in the North * Parents especially mothers are the heroes of this book, many of them describing with extraordinary absence of self-pity how they have coped with almost unimaginable adversity -- Dominic Lawson * Sunday Times * Solomon really makes you think... Uniquely brilliant -- William Leith * Evening Standard * Beautiful * The Times *
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 Universitys 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.