Twin: A Memoir - Shawn, Allen - Good
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780670022373
- Book Title
- Twin : a Memoir
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
- Topic
- Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders, Personal Memoirs, Psychopathology / General, Educators, Siblings
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670022373
ISBN-13
9780670022373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92954526
Product Key Features
Book Title
Twin : a Memoir
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders, Personal Memoirs, Psychopathology / General, Educators, Siblings
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-027898
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"An affecting family portrait." - Entertainment Weekly "Astonishing...exhilarating." - The New York Observer "An unsparing but deeply compassionate inquiry into his family's life. It's a book that combines the sympathetic insight of Oliver Sack's Oliver writings with Joan Didion's autobiographical candor and Mary Karr's sense of familial dynamics - a book that leaves the reader with a haunting sense of how relationships between brothers and sisters, and parents and children, can irrevocably bend the arc of an individual's life, how childhood dynamics can shape one's apprehension of the world." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
616.85/8820092
Synopsis
A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism. When Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two, Mary began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed many years later as autism. Understanding Mary and making her life a happy one appeared to be impossible for the Shawns. At the age of eight, with almost no warning, her parents sent Mary to a residential treatment center. She never lived at home again. Fifty years later, as he probed the sources of his anxieties in Wish I Could Be There , Shawn realized that his fate was inextricably linked to his sister's, and that their natures were far from being different. Twin highlights the difficulties American families coping with autism faced in the 1950s. Shawn also examines the secrets and family dramas as his father, William, became editor of The New Yorker. Twin reconstructs a parallel narrative for the two siblings, who experienced such divergent fates yet shared talents and proclivities. Wrenching, honest, understated, and poetic, Twin is at heart about the mystery of being inextricably bonded to someone who can never be truly understood.
LC Classification Number
RC553.A88S53 2011
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- a***t (2523)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseA book that is exactly as described. A real value for a book in this condition. Communication was good, and the book was shipped promptly. Packaging ensured a safe arrival. I would definitely buy from this seller again. A+
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