The shape of the eye : Down syndrome, family, and the stories we inherit / George Estreich ; afterword by Marcia Day Childress.

  • Estreich, George.
Date:
[2011], ©2011
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Description

Writer George Estreich describes how raising a child with Down syndrome impacted everything else in his life, including his approach to writing and the way he now perceives other events in his own life and in the lives of his family members.

Publication/Creation

Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

xiii, 284 pages ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Arrival -- A child first -- Faultline -- Border -- This is eating -- Echo -- In the ICU -- Medicine is communication -- The mayor of Hidden Valley -- At home -- A complex sweetness -- Writers and families -- The labyrinth of normal -- Tragedy and expectation -- John Langdon Down -- Engineering -- Increments and fates -- Tokyo, 1945.

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    History of Medicine
    STP.6.AA10
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  • 9780870745676
  • 0870745670