Not Even Wrong (e-bog) af Paul Collins, Collins
Paul Collins, Collins (forfatter)

Not Even Wrong e-bog

77,59 DKK (inkl. moms 96,99 DKK)
&quote;Collins elucidates, with great compassion, what it means to be 'normal' and what it means to be human.&quote; -Los Angeles TimesWhen Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always ...
E-bog 77,59 DKK
Forfattere Paul Collins, Collins (forfatter)
Udgivet 11 december 2008
Længde 256 sider
Genrer Psychology
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781596917491
"e;Collins elucidates, with great compassion, what it means to be 'normal' and what it means to be human."e; -Los Angeles TimesWhen Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world. In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, Collins's travels take him from an English churchyard to the Seattle labs of Microsoft, and from a Wisconsin prison cell block to the streets of Vienna. It is a story that reaches from a lonely clearing in the Black Forest into the London palace of King George I, from Defoe and Swift to the discovery of evolution; from the modern dawn of the computer revolution to, in the end, the author's own household. Not Even Wrong is a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology - a meditation on what "e;normal"e; is, and how human genius comes to us in strange and wondrous forms.