Parallel Play

Parallel Play
ISBN-10
0767929691
ISBN-13
9780767929691
Series
Parallel Play
Category
Psychology
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Anchor Books
Author
Tim Page

Description

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes his gifted but troubled youth and career while unknowingly affected by Asperger's syndrome, in a full-length account based on his popular New Yorker essay that discusses the disparity between his aptitude and grades and his high-functioning career in spite of persistent social challenges. Reprint.

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