Far From The Tree

Préface
WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014

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?

Auteur

Andrew Solomon holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge; is a professor of psychology at Columbia University and President of PEN American Center; and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. A lecturer and activist, he is the author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other awards; and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. His TED talks have been viewed over 12 million times. A dual UK/US national, he lives in London and New York. www.andrewsolomon.com.

Texte du rabat

Now in paperback, this is a seminal study of family, which tells the true stories of parents who learn to deal with their exceptional children and find profound meaning in doing so. Introduces the reader to families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, and disabilities. Also looks at child prodigies, children conceived by rape, and those who become criminals. '...a landmark, revolutionary book...' Jennifer Egan

Résumé
Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, disability, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime and transgender people, Andrew Solomon documents ordinary people making courageous choices.