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Description

1. 390 pages; 25 cm

Summary

1. "Alex loves his family, and yet he struggles to connect with his eight-year-old autistic son, Sam. The strain has pushed his marriage to the breaking point. So Alex moves in with his merrily irresponsible best friend on the world's most uncomfortable blow-up bed. As Alex navigates single life, long-buried family secrets, and part-time fatherhood, his son begins playing Minecraft. Sam's imagination blossoms and the game opens up a whole new world for father and son to share. Together, they discover that sometimes life must fall apart before you can build a better one. Inspired by Keith Stuart's own relationship with his autistic son, A Boy Made of Blocks is a tear-jerking, funny, and, most of all, true-to-life novel about the power of difference and one very special little boy"--

Subject

1. Parents of autistic children > Fiction
2. Fathers and sons > Fiction
3. Video games > Fiction
4. FICTION / Family Life
5. FICTION / Coming of Age

Genre/Form

1. Domestic fiction.

Call number

1. JFE 16-11833

Author

1. Stuart, Keith (Journalist), author.

Title

1. A boy made of blocks / Keith Stuart.

Publisher

1. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.

Edition

1. First U.S. edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Other editions:

1. Reproduction of (manifestation): Stuart, Keith (Journalist) Boy made of blocks London : Sphere, 2016 9780751563283

LCCN

1. 2016020658

ISBN

1. 9781250111593
2. 1250111595

Research call number

1. JFE 16-11833