Philip F O'Connor
Author
Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Brendan Flynn, an 18-year-old Down's syndrome child struggling to adjust to life after the death of his mother, runs away rather than be institutionalized. As each of the people Brendan encounters in his flight and capture present a perspective on his disability, many characteristics of Down's syndrome are revealed, while equal numbers of misconceptions and prejudices against the retarded are exposed.
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
It is 1955, at the height of the Cold War, and the entire Western world nervously awaits Soviet invasion. America's first line of defense is its military installations scattered throughout Europe. To one of these, the air force base at Greenham Common, England comes Second Lieutenant Thomas V. Hanlon, fresh from officers' basic training at Fort Bliss and a college degree in moral philosophy. Idealistic and inexperienced, Hanlon soon runs up against...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
"Benjamin and Marilyn Dunne, Bobo, Annie, Suzie. Here, in this tremendously moving novel, is an American family today, riding out a kind of crisis of feelings and identity that is particular to our time. We see them, the Dunnes, through the eyes of the young husband, Benjamin-in his mid-thirties-whose apparently solid and agreeable life is beginning to unravel. His marriage is coming apart. His wife, Marilyn, suddenly and deeply wants more than her...
