Eye Contact: A Novel - Brossura

McGovern, Cammie

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ISBN 10: 0143038907 ISBN 13: 9780143038900

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2007

Riassunto

In the aftermath of a child's shocking murder, the mother of the only witness, an autistic boy, struggles to work through her son's trauma and his communication disabilities in order to help the police to solve the case. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

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Recensione:

An airtight thriller that illuminates the exhausting, isolating realities of parenting special- needs children. (People)

An enticing drama. (Entertainment Weekly)

Deeply moving, actually gripping . . . Cammie McGovern . . . brings to the page an empathetic understanding of the lock that autism places on a motherĘs child. (New York Daily News)

Eye Contact is a page-turner. . . . But itĘs also . . . a nuanced, poignant exploration of how all of usłwith or without autismłstruggle to find our place in the world. (Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep)

So detailed and illuminating are McGovernĘs descriptions of Adam . . . that she offers, in essence, a primer on the nature of autism. Eye Contact is compelling by virtue of its spiky and in-transition characters. Psychologically rich and sensationally eventful. (Chicago Tribune)

L'autore:

Cammie McGovern was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and received the Nelson Algren Award in short fiction. Her work has been published in Redbook, Seventeen, Glimmer Train, TriQuarterly, and other publications. This is her second novel.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0143038907
• ISBN 13: 9780143038900
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 320