Title:
Life, animated : a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism / Ron Suskind.
Author:
Suskind, Ron.
Publication Information:
New York : Kingswell, [2014]
©2014
Call Number:
RJ506 .A9 S88 2014
Abstract:
"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."-- Publisher information.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781423180364
Physical Description:
358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Contents:
Growing backward -- Bumping into walls -- In character -- Musical chairs -- The protekter of sidekicks -- A journey song -- Magic formulas -- Luck from unluck -- Blessings, undisguised -- The movie gods -- To do it on his own -- The animated life -- Sidekicks.
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