Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Couverture souple

Fadiman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374533407 ISBN 13 : 9780374533403

Editeur : FSG Adult, 2012

Synopsis

Now with a new Afterword from the author

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy.

Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest.

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Lia Lee 1982-2012

Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anne Fadiman is the author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (FSG, 1997), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. She is also the author of two essay collections, At Large and At Small and Ex Libris, and the memoir The Wine Lover's Daughter, and she is the editor of Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (all published by FSG). Her essays and articles have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among other publications. She is the Francis Writer in Residence at Yale.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: FSG Adult
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374533407
• ISBN 13: 9780374533403
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible