Far from the Tree
Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another . . . Our Differences Unite Us
- Hardcover
464 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2017
Summary
From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Solomon comes a stunning, poignant, and affecting young adult edition of his award-winning masterpiece, Far from the Tree, which explores the impact of extreme differences between parents and children.
The old adage says that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, meaning that children usually resemble their parents. But what happens when the apples fall somewhere else–sometimes a couple of orchards away, sometime…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781481440905 |
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| ISBN-10: | 148144090X |
| Author: | Andrew Solomon, Laurie Calkhoven |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 142mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
*PRAISE FOR THE ADULT EDITION OF FAR FROM THE TREE:
“An informative and moving book that raises profound issues regarding the nature of love, the value of human life, and the future of humanity.”– “Kirkus, starred review”
About The Author
Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon is a professor of psychology at Columbia University, president of PEN American Center, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, NPR, and The New York Times Magazine. A lecturer and activist, he is the author of Far and Away: Essays from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years; the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which has won thirty additional national awards; and The Noonday Demon; An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. He has also written a novel, A Stone Boat, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost. His TED talks have been viewed over ten million times. He lives in New York and London and is a dual national. For more information, visit the author’s website at AndrewSolomon.com.
Laurie Calkhoven is the author of many books, including George Washington: An American Life and Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. She lives in New York City. Visit her at LaurieCalkhoven.com.
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