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Songs of the Gorilla Nation : My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughes.
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- ISBN
- 9781400050581
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1400050588
ISBN-13
9781400050581
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30423118
Product Key Features
Book Title
Songs of the Gorilla Nation : My Journey Through Autism
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Animals / General, Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Nature, Science, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-023402
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Lyrical, redemptive . . .Songs of the Gorilla Nationis as much a rhapsody to gorillas as it is an anatomy of autism." -The New York Times Book Review "A primer on self-preservation and love." -O Magazine "Gorilla Nationproves Prince-Hughes is a great writer-and an inspiration to anyone searching for a voice." -Seattle Magazine "[An] affecting, thoughtful memoir . . . both delightfully quixotic and terribly sad. Although Prince-Hughes struggles with verbal and physical interactions, in print she finds touching eloquence and clarity." -Publishers Weekly From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal
616.85/882/0092 B
Synopsis
"This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it." So writes Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes in the introduction to Songs of the Gorilla Nation. In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn traces her personal growth from before she was diagnosed with autism, to the moment that she enters the Seattle Zoo and becomes immediately fascinated with the gorillas. For her, gorillas were more subtle and less threatening than humans, since she could observe them quietly and continuously, separated from them by the cage bars. With each passing day, Dawn felt compelled to re-enter the zoo and get closer and closer to the gorillas. In one particularly touching moment. Dawn recalls the precise and magical instant when a gorilla first physically touches her, and she is able to emerge from her solitude and connect to a living being in a way she had never before experienced. Dawn sees her life divided principally into three parts: a life without song, learning the songs of the gorilla nation, and finally, how she can't keep herself from singing. In the first phase, she struggles with childhood and adolescence, constantly wondering why she is different from her peers, and being confined to periods of extreme isolation. In the second part, she finally learns to become a social being through her relationship with gorillas, and eventually expands upon this to finish her education and devel- op lasting love relationships in her life. Finally, in the last phase, Dawn confronts loss with the death of her best friend, a gorilla named Congo, who helped her make the leap from a life lived in isolation to one filled with love. This loss inspires her to start a family for herself. Dawn's evocative story will no doubt have a lasting impact on all readers, forcing us, like the author herself, to re-discover and assess our own understanding of human emotion.
LC Classification Number
RC553.A88P756 2004
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