The Boy Who Went Away

Author : Eli Gottlieb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490931
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Went Away written by Eli Gottlieb and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Academy’s Rome Prize for fiction, Eli Gottlieb’s tender, harrowing coming-of-age novel finally returns to print. Denny Graubart, child-narrator and “domestic surveillance expert,” is having some terrible suspicions about his mother and autistic brother. It’s the 1960s, aka the Diagnostic Dark Ages of Autism, and while his mother struggles to keep his brother out of an institution, signs of something more disturbing are beginning to emerge before young Denny’s eyes. Battered by his own tragicomic sexual awakening during a long, hot summer, Denny will eventually find his most horrified suspicions about his family confirmed. A powerfully drawn portrait of two brothers locked into an asymmetrical childhood and a family struggling against a weight of medical ignorance, The Boy Who Went Away is “shockingly, electrically alive” (Phillip Lopate). It is also an indispensable bookend to Gottlieb’s Best Boy, which recounts the impact of autism on the same family from the other side, many years later, in the voice of a middle-aged autistic man.

Author : Eli Gottlieb
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1631490923
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Went Away written by Eli Gottlieb and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Academy’s Rome Prize for Fiction and the McKitterick Prize, Eli Gottlieb’s tender, harrowing coming-of-age novel finally returns to print. Denny Graubart, child-narrator and “domestic surveillance expert,” is having some terrible suspicions about his mother and autistic brother. It’s the 1960s, aka the Diagnostic Dark Ages of Autism, and while his mother struggles to keep his brother out of an institution, signs of something more disturbing are beginning to emerge before young Denny’s eyes. Battered by his own tragicomic sexual awakening during a long, hot summer, Denny will eventually find his most horrified suspicions about his family confirmed. A powerfully drawn portrait of two brothers locked into an asymmetrical childhood and a family struggling against a weight of medical ignorance, The Boy Who Went Away is “shockingly, electrically alive” (Phillip Lopate). It is also an indispensable bookend to Gottlieb’s Best Boy, which recounts the impact of autism on the same family from the other side, many years later, in the voice of a middle-aged autistic man.

Author : Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0748132007
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away written by Christopher Brookmyre and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from multi-award-winning author Chris Brookmyre. We all make life choices. Some cause more mayhem than others. Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they're having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them. Nervous new father Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. People say he needs to grow up, but everybody has to find their own way of coping. For some it's affairs, for others it's the bottle, and for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination. PRAISE FOR CHRIS BROOKMYRE 'In the pantheon of great crime writers' Elly Griffiths 'Keeps you guessing until the very end' The Times 'Offers a brilliantly scathing portrayal of humanity' Time Out

Author : Nancy Janes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781479139071
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Walked a Way written by Nancy Janes and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2162, ten-year old, Jal Valhyn is caught in a maelstrom of violence and conflict. His country is at war and the world government based on humanistic principles that had fulfilled its promise of a halcyon peace for over a century has fallen. His parents and family members gone to serve in the war Jal is alone and helpless. An encounter with an invisible being leads to a seven-day journey, where he hopes to find a safe haven with each new day bringing new friendship, awareness and a sense of belonging, understanding and hope in a war torn world.

Author : Michael Baron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781458780119
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When You Went Away written by Michael Baron and published by . This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a few months ago, Gerry Rubato had everything he thought he needed from life. He was passionately in love with his college sweetheart after nearly twenty years of marriage, he had a bright, independent-minded daughter, and he had the surprising addition of a new child on the way. Then everything changed with stunning rapidity. With little explanation, his daughter ran away with her older boyfriend. Then, only a month after giving birth to their son, his wife died suddenly. Now, Gerry needs to be everything to his infant child while he contends with two losses he can barely comprehend. And when a woman walks into his life as a friend and their relationship verges on something more, Gerry must redefine all that he knows about himself, about love, about loyalty, and about his dreams.

Author : Nathan Penlington
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 0755365712
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy in the Book written by Nathan Penlington and published by Headline. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nathan discovered a job lot of the first 106 adventures for sale on eBay, there was never any question that he would place a bid. When the books arrived, he lost himself in the old adventures. Yet, as he flicked through the pages, there was another story being written. In the margins of each book were the scribblings of the little boy who had once owned them, a little boy by the name of Terence John Prendergast. Terence wrote jokes and hints for adventurers following the same stories as him. More troubling, among the notes were intimations of a tormented childhood: of the boys and teachers who bullied him; of the things he hated about himself and had to improve; of his thoughts of suicide and his desperate need to find friends, be liked, and find somebody - anybody - to confide in. THE BOY IN THE BOOK is Nathan's poignant recreation of the discovery of the fragments of Terence Prendergast's diary, his quest to find the lost boy, and the friendship that resulted from their first meeting. In doing so, Nathan is forced to examine his own childhood - and, as his relationship with Terence deepens, he begins to believe that the two men are not so different, and to reflect on the darkness that can exist in childhood.

Author : Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher : Red Chair Press
ISBN 13 : 1684526574
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy and the North Wind: A Tale from Norway written by Suzanne I. Barchers and published by Red Chair Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Norway, the cold winds blow from the north. But when the wind blows away the flour carried by the baker’s young son, he sets out on a journey to insist it be returned. Themes: perseverance, intelligence.

Author : Kevin Malarkey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788184953923
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven written by Kevin Malarkey and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A True Story A Remarkable Account of Miracles Angels, and Life beyond this World AN ACCIDENT, A MIRACLE , and a SUPERNATURAL ENCOUNTER that will give you new insights on Heaven, angels, and hearing the voice of God. In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered a terrible car wreck. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex – and it seemed impossible that he could survive. When Alex awoke from a coma two months later, he had an incredible story to share. Of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious. Of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. Of the angels who took him through the gates of Heaven itself. And, most amazing of all . . . of meeting and talking to Jesus. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy’s most extraordinary journey. As you see Heaven and earth through Alex’s eyes, you’ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father’s love.

Author : Ken Dornstein
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307386910
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky written by Ken Dornstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "hugely satisfying" story (The Boston Globe) of one man’s search for the truth about his brother—and himself. David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, with dreams of becoming a great writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, a terrorist bomb ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost a decade later, Ken Dornstein set out to solve the riddle of his older brother’s life, using the notebooks and manuscripts that David left behind. In the process, he also began to create a new life of his own.

Author : William Sleator
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417675678
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Couldn't Die written by William Sleator and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. When his best friend dies in a plane crash, 16-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.