The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Häftad)
avAnne Fadiman, Fadiman
ISBN: 9780374533403 - UTGIVEN: 201204The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understand[...]
Ex Libris (Pocket)
avAnne Fadiman
ISBN: 9780140283709 - UTGIVEN: 2000-03Wittily recounting a lifelong obsession with books, the author moves easily, with humour and erudition, from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. Published in time for World Book Day, 10th March.[...]
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Häftad)
avAnne Fadiman
ISBN: 9780374527228 - UTGIVEN: 200011A superbly written collection of essays discusses with humor, grace, and moving eloquence the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.[...]
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (Häftad)
avAnne Fadiman
ISBN: 9780374530549 - UTGIVEN: 2006-09
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays (Häftad)
avAnne Fadiman
ISBN: 9780374531317 - UTGIVEN: 200805In "At Large and At Small," Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay--a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that has distingui[...]
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Inbunden)
avMarina Keegan, Anne Fadiman
ISBN: 9781476753614 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Ya[...]
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Häftad)
avMarina Keegan, Anne Fadiman
ISBN: 9781476753911 - UTGIVEN: 2015-04The instant "New York Times" bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan's posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories "sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth" ("O, The Oprah Magazine").
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in[...]
