LIFE, ANIMATED: A STORY OF SIDEKICKS, HEROES, AND AUTISM

Book ID/图书代码： 06540513B66532

English Summary/英文概要： What if you were trapped in a Disney movie? In all of them, actually from Dumbo to Peter Pan to The Lion King -- and had to learn about life and love mostly from what could be gleaned from animated characters, dancing across a screen of color?What if you were trapped in a Disney movie? In all of them, actually from Dumbo to Peter Pan to The Lion King -- and had to learn about life and love mostly from what could be gleaned from animated characters, dancing across a screen of color?
Asking this question opens a doorway to the most extraordinary of stories. It is the saga of Owen Suskind, who happens to be the son of one of America’s most noted writers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind. He’s also autistic.
The twisting, 20-year journey of this boy and his family will change that way you see autism, old Disney movies, and the power of imagination to heal a shattered, upside-down world. Asking this question opens a doorway to the most extraordinary of stories. It is the saga of Owen Suskind, who happens to be the son of one of America’s most noted writers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind. He’s also autistic. The twisting, 20-year journey of this boy and his family will change that way you see autism, old Disney movies, and the power of imagination to heal a shattered, upside-down world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 妳是否曾深受迪士尼的電影吸引？特別是那些經典電影，如《小飛象》Dumbo 、《小飛侠彼得潘》Peter Pan 、《獅子王》The Lion King等，從這些電影的動畫角色及影像中，能學會感受生命及愛嗎？
對於這些問題若用一個真實的例子來回答，那答案就是Owen Suskind。Owen是美國普立茲獎得主Ron Suskind的孩子，他有自閉症，三歲前他就像所有正常的孩子一樣，發病後他是失去的說話的能力，長年以來只能依靠某些特殊偏方飲食來維持，他自己別無選擇，而他的家人也是如此，他們只能重新學習如何和他溝通…
透過迪士尼的動畫，Suskind一家重新找到溝通語言的媒介，以電影的對白及角色的個性作為溝通的方式，英雄式的故事情節彷彿也將他們從黑暗中的角落拯救出來。
這是一本關於希望的書，它不僅將改變妳看待迪士尼電影及自閉症的觀點，也將啟發妳無限的想像力量來對於面對現今如此瘋狂、顛倒的世界>

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About the Author/作者介绍： Ron Suskind，美國普立茲記者獎得主，著有多本暢銷書籍，如The Price of Loyalty (January 2004)、The Way of the World, (August 2008) 及Confidence Men (September 2011)等。目前他與妻子居住在華盛頓及劍橋。
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind has written some of America’s most important works of nonfiction, framing national debates while exploring the complexities of human experience. Suskind’s latest book, Confidence Men (September 2011), is a multi-layered narrative about the fall of the U.S. economy, the rise of Barack Obama, and the President’s harrowing battle to take control of his White House and earn the confidence of the American people.
His previous works include the New York Times bestseller, The Way of the World, (August 2008), about the forces fighting the global “hearts and minds” struggle at a time when awesomely destructive weapons are available to the common man; The One Percent Doctrine (June 2006), a signature work on how the U.S. government frantically improvised to fight a new kind of war after 9/11; The Price of Loyalty (January 2004), a sweeping tour of the inner workings of the American government in the modern era; and A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy (January 1998) a critically-acclaimed bestseller that has redefined national debates on race, class and achievement.
In addition to his books, he often appears on network television and has been a contributor for The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. Suskind was the Wall Street Journal’s senior national affairs reporter from 1993 until his departure in 2000, and won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. He currently lives in Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA with his wife, Cornelia Kennedy Suskind.

Format:照片

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Brazil, Editora Schwarcz; China, LuJiang Publishing House; France, Editions Saint-Simon; Japan, Business-sha; Latin America, Publicaciones Semana; Taiwan, Longstone Publishing

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