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Father's day : a journey into the mind and heart of my extraordinary son / Buzz Bissinger.
LIBRA HQ759.913 .B57 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bissinger, Buzz, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bissinger, Buzz, 1954-.
- Bissinger, Buzz.
- Bissinger, Zach, 1983-.
- Bissinger, Zach.
- Parents of exceptional children--United States--Biography.
- Parents of exceptional children.
- People with mental disabilities--United States--Biography.
- People with mental disabilities.
- People with mental disabilities--Family relationships--United States.
- Fathers and sons--United States--Biography.
- Fathers and sons.
- People with mental disabilities--Family relationships.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
- Summary:
- Buzz Bissinger's twins were born three minutes--and a world--apart. Gerry is a graduate student at Penn, preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach has spent his life attending special schools. He'll never drive a car, or kiss a girl, or live by himself. He is a savant, challenged by serious intellectual deficits but also blessed with rare talents: an astonishing memory, a dazzling knack for navigation, and a reflexive honesty that can make him both socially awkward and surprisingly wise. Buzz realized that while he had always been an attentive father, he didn't really understand what it was like to be Zach. So one summer night Buzz and Zach hit the road to revisit all the places they have lived together during Zach's twenty-four years. Zach revels in his memories, and Buzz hopes this journey into their shared past will bring them closer and reveal to him the mysterious workings of his son's mind and heart.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Zach
- Bon voyage
- Blue box
- Is that all there is?
- Failure to forget
- Embassy Suites!
- Lost in Milwaukee
- Cardinals and cookies
- "It will be okay"
- I'll do anything
- Scene of the crime
- Boobie
- Mom and dad
- Hollywood blue
- Viva Las Vegas!
- Coming into Los Angeles
- Picture perfect
- Zach and Gerry
- Reality bites.
- ISBN:
- 9780547816562
- 0547816561
- OCLC:
- 744294623
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