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The Boy Who Loved Windows » (Reprint)

Authors: Patricia Stacey
ISBN-13: 9780738209661, ISBN-10: 073820966X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: Reprint

Patricia Stacey, a writer, college teacher, and former staff member of the Atlantic Monthly, lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

If you or anyone you know has a child with autism, you won't want to miss reading The Boy Who Loved Windows.--Newsday

	Acknowledgments	vii
Part 1
	Sirens	3
	You'll Have to Wait	13
	Grasping	19
Part 2
	What's in a Face	27
	The World Is Too Much	35
	Reciprocity	44
	The Brain Doesn't Wait	51
	The Game	58
	The Body Is a Map	67
Part 3
	The Questions That Haunted Us	83
	New Clues	93
	A Walk Around the Driveway	102
	The Epidemic	108
Part 4
	Through a Door in the Wall	123
	A Challenge, a Game, a Vocation, a Sentence	133
	Begin with Desire	144
	Tyranny of Attention	150
	Partly Heard Song	163
	Words	169
	The Specter of Loss	182
	Ways to Make a Salad	186
	The Ladder	194
	To Paradise Pond	199
	Exotic Poisons, Unusual Connections	205
	Through Another Door in the Wall	208
Part 5
	Imagining the World	221
	A Close Call	227
	Companions	238
	A Searchlight	240
	The Senses Revisited	244
Part 6
	I Have a Prob'em	263
	Epiphany	270
	What Wrecks This World	275
	A Car Turning Off the Road	281
	Eyes of a Stranger	285
	The Fate of Babies and Pirates	289
	Epilogue	297
	About the Author	300