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Life, animated: a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Kingswell 2016 Los AngelesDescription: 372 pISBN:
  • 9781484741238
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.9285882 S8L4
Summary: 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. https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/none/life-animated/9781484741238/
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 33-B / Slot 1747 (2nd Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 618.9285882 S8L4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 194025

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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