Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic - Hardcover

Beck, Martha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812929802 ISBN 13: 9780812929805

Verlag: Times Books, 1999

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Book by Beck Martha

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Describes how a mother struggled to cope when her unborn second child, Adam, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, her decision to keep her son, and his magical influence on her life

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s you'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been by remaining closed."

The messenger is a school janitor with a master's in art history who claims to be channeling "from both sides of the veil." "He" is Adam, a three-year-old who has never spoken an intelligible word.  And the message is intended for Martha Beck, Adam's mother, who doesn't know whether to make a mad dash for the door to escape a raving lunatic (after all, how many conversations like this one can you have before you stop getting dinner party invitations and start pushing a mop yourself?) or accept another in a series of life lessons from an impeccable but mysterious source.

From the moment Martha and her husband, John, accidentally conceived their second child, all hell broke loose. They were a couple obsessed with success. After years of matching IQs and test scores with less driven peers, they had two Harvard degrees apiece and were gunning for more. They'd plo

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• Verlag: Times Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0812929802
• ISBN 13: 9780812929805
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328