Life, animated: a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism

"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia....

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1. Verfasser: Suskind, Ron 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Kingswell 2014
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive"--
Beschreibung:358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 22 cm
ISBN:9781423180364

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