Genie: An Abused Child’s Flight From Silence
#1990 of 3,809 books · #218 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1993).
The compelling story of a young woman's emergence into the world after spending her first 13 years strapped to a chair, and her rescue and exploitation by scientists hoping to gain new insight into language acquisition.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- ISBN-13
- 9780060924652
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1993)
Other awarded books from Russ Rymer
- American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory (2000)0 wins · 3 score
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