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Far from the Tree

Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

Far from the Tree( )
Author: Solomon, Andrew
ISBN:978-0-09-946099-2
Publication Date:Mar 2014
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Arrow
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $27.99
Book Description:

**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...
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Book Details
Pages:976
Detailed Subjects: Family & Relationships / Children With Special Needs
Psychology / General
Family & Relationships / Parenting / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.4 x 21.6 x 5.2 cm
Book Weight:0.744 Kilograms
Author Biography
Solomon, Andrew (Author)
Andrew Solomon was born in New York City on October 30, 1963. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University and a Master's degree in English at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has written for numerous publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker. He has written several non-fiction books including The Irony Tower, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award. He also wrote the novel A Stone Boat. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at Cornell University and special advisor on LGBT affairs to the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry.

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