Life, animated
a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism
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Word Count
89,500 words, Guess
Page Count
358 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveisbn_9781423180364
- Internet Archivelifeanimatedstor0000susk
- ISBN-101423180364
- ISBN-139781423180364
- Library of Congress Control Number2014006760
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number871536684
- Better World Books9781423180364
- Open LibraryOL26644786M
Classifications
- DDC618.92/85882
- LCCRJ506.A9 S88 2014
- LCCRC553.A88
Description
"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"--
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