The shape of the eye : a memoir
Title:
The shape of the eye : a memoir
Author:
Estreich, George.
Personal Author:
Edition:
Tarcher/Penguin trade paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2013.
Physical Description:
xvi, 314 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
Writer George Estreich describes how raising a child with Down syndrome impacted everything else in his life, including his approach to writing and the way he now perceives other events in his own life and in the lives of his family members.
General Note:
Originally published in Dallas in 2011 by Southern Methodist University Press with the subtitle: Down syndrome, family, and the stories we inherit.
Language:
English
Contents:
Arrival -- A child first -- Fault line -- Border -- This is eating -- Echo -- In the ICU -- Medicine is communication -- The mayor of Hidden Valley -- At home -- A complex sweetness -- Writers and families -- The labyrinth of normal -- Tragedy and expectation -- John Langdon Down -- Engineering -- Increments and fates -- Tokyo, 1945.
ISBN:
9780399163340
Format :
Book
