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father's day - A Journey into the Mind & Heart of My Extroardinary Son
by Bissinger, Buzz
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0547816561
- ISBN 13
- 9780547816562
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardcover 1st edition in dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, "5-20-12 To Jackie - Enjoy!! Buzz Bissinger III." A very good copy with bumping at the spine ends. Clean, straight and tight. Binding solid and pages unmarked. Unclipped jacket is also very good with light wear at the panel edges and spine tips - bright and attractive. 242 pp., Bissinger's story about the life of his mentally disabled son and the love that their family shares.
Synopsis
Buzz Bissinger’s twins were born three minutes—and a world—apart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate student preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach 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. One summer, striving to understand the twenty-four-year-old son who remains, in many ways, a mystery, Buzz convinces Zach to join him on a cross-country road trip. As father and son drive from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, revisiting all the places they have lived together, Buzz learns to see the world through Zach’s eyes. Father's Day is a powerful account of this journey, and a universal tale of the bond between parents and children. “Grade: A . . . Gorgeous.” — Entertainment Weekly “Blunt, tender, sometimes harrowing, and always affecting, Father’s Day is a triumph.” — Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief
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- 916
- Title
- father's day - A Journey into the Mind & Heart of My Extroardinary Son
- Author
- Bissinger, Buzz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0547816561
- ISBN 13
- 9780547816562
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Buzz Bissinger Signed Autographed First Edition Sons Twins Family Autobiography Mental Disabilities Savant Relationships
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports;
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