Facing the Wind - Hardcover

Salamon, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375500227 ISBN 13: 9780375500220

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2001

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Book by Salamon Julie

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The author of The Devil's Candy describes how a depressed Robert Rowe killed his three children and his wife--including his son, Christopher, a child with severe neurological and visual handicaps--discusses the people who were touched by the tragedy, and explores the causes, consequences, and moral implications of the crime. 35,000 first printing.

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ary Rowe’s second child, Christopher, was born with severe neurological and visual impairments. For many years, the Rowes’ courageous response to adversity set an example for a group of Brooklyn mothers who met to discuss the challenges of raising children with birth defects. Then Bob Rowe’s pressures ― professional and personal ― took their toll, and he fell into depression and, ultimately delusion. And one day he took a baseball bat and killed his three children and his wife. In Facing the Wind, Julie Salamon not only tells the Rowes’ tragic story but also explores the lives of others drawn into it: the mothers, a social worker with problems of her own, an ocularist ― that is, a man who makes prosthetic eyes ― a young woman who enters the novitiate out of shame over her childhood sexual activities, and a judge of unusual wisdom. Facing the Wind is a work of redemptive compassion and understanding. It address

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375500227
• ISBN 13: 9780375500220
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302