The Only Boy in the World
A Father Explores the Mysteries of Autism
New York : Marlowe & Co., 2006.
Format: Book
Edition: Trade paperback edition.
Description: 214 pages ; 21 cm
The Only Boy in the World is a memoir, an investigation into what makes us human, a study of aberration, and a love story. It's about all the odd ways journalist Michael Blastland's autistic son, Joe, has of seeing the world and understanding others, and what that tells the rest of us about how we also tick. Through the strange stories of Joe's scrapes and confusions, he makes luminous the routine skills by which the rest of us mostly avoid the disasters that befall him. The book strives tothis understanding by combining Technicolor scenes from Joe's bizarre life, from the long catalog of his social accidents, with scientific and psychological understanding of how we normally relate to other people. Illuminating the emotional core of the book are the ways that Joe and his father relate through all the turbulence to one other.
Subjects:
Blastland, Joe -- Health.
Autistic children -- Biography.
Autistic children -- Family relationships.
Autism in children.
Blastland, Joe -- Health.
Autistic children -- Biography.
Autistic children -- Family relationships.
Autism in children.
ISBN:
1569242917
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
PARENTING Health Autism Bla | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
"Originally published in somewhat different form in Great Britain under the title: Joe: the only boy in the world by Profile Books, Ltd."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-214).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-214).