John Elder Robison: Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Aspergers
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- Kustantaja: Three Rivers Press (CA)
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780307396181
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find. from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them) had earned him the label social deviant. It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger s syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own. It s a strange, sly, indelible account sometimes alien yet always deeply human. '