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From the National Book Award-winning author of the “brave…deeply humane…open-minded, critically informed, and poetic” (The New York Times) THE NOONDAY DEMON, comes a book about the consequences of extreme personal and cultural differences between parents and children. As a gay child of... read more
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“Ability is the tyranny of the majority. If most people could flap their arms and fly, the inability to do so would be a disability.”
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“Loving our children is an exercise of the imagination.”
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“"Classrooms," Isabelle Rapin said, "are dichotomous, which is the only reason for these classifications of children whose differences are not black-and-white: so they can be put in the right room or center. This is policy, not biology."”
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“While accomodating people with physical disabilities must be undertaken out of moral conviction, adequately treating people wiith severe psychiatric ilness is a win-win situation; if moral conviction fails, economic self- interest should prevail.”
First Sentence edit
There is no such thing as reproduction.
Table of Contents edit
1. Son
2. Deaf
3. Dwarfs
4. Down Syndrome
5. Autism
6. Schizophrenia
7. Disability
8. Prodigies
9. Rape
10. Crime
11. Transgender
12. Father
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Andrew Solomon (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9780743236713
Page Count: 976
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9780743236713
Page Count: 976
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (2012: Nonfiction)
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