Believing it All: What My Children Taught Me About Life - Couverture souple

Parent, Marc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 074992201X ISBN 13 : 9780749922016

Editeur : Piatkus Books, 2001

Synopsis

What if there actually are answers to some of the biggest questions in life? From a natural-born storyteller, Believing It All is a beautifully written book of lessons and inspiration from life's most perfect teachers: out children. Walking down their road one day, Marc Parent's son Casey spied a dead squirrel. This prompted a discussion about life and death, God and Heaven, after which Casey asked, 'We can kick it?'. There is nobody like a child to look life's greatest mysteries square in the eye, and there is no writer like Marc Parent to translate their revelations to the rest of us He tries to teach his sons how to win at his favourite board games, but learns instead the real joy of making up your own incoherent rules. He nurtures their compassion, they teach him about love and forgiveness in the face of anger. This is a book about the things we knew as children - about gratitude and playfulness, acceptance and love - but elude us as adults. Offers a reflective approach to examining one's life. Simple but not simplistic, bittersweet but not sickly. Just as Tuesdays with Morrie was an overview of life from the point of view of a professor nearing his final days, Believing It All examines life's richness from the point of view of its tiniest teachers, children.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mark Parent is the author of Tuming Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk He has written for the New York Times and USA Today and lives in Pennsylvania, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Piatkus Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074992201X
• ISBN 13: 9780749922016
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible