Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk a Caseworker's Story

Parent, Marc

ISBN 10: 0449912353 / ISBN 13: 9780449912355

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1998

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0449912353I4N00

Inhaltsangabe:

“An absorbing piece of narrative nonfiction . . . A rare glimpse of what it is like to man these front lines of the war on child abuse—and what it does to a person’s soul. . . . Devastating [and] mesmerizing.”—The Los Angeles Times

Featuring a new Afterword by the author

Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother’s throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets—and his heart—for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Marc Parent is the author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize as well as a New Visions nominee and a NEBA Honorary Selection, and Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life. He has written for The New York Times and USA Today, among other publications.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with ...
Verlag: Ballantine Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket