| Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's Contributor(s): Robison, John Elder (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307396185 ISBN-13: 9780307396181 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Robison delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of growing up with Asperger's at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes readers inside the head of a boy whom teachers and other adults regarded as defective. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Autism Spectrum Disorders - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | People With Disabilities |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.18" W x 7.93" (0.55 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find." --from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits--an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them)--had earned him the label "social deviant." It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself--and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own. It's a strange, sly, indelible account--sometimes alien yet always deeply human. |