Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism | Now an Award-Winning Motion Picture

Ron Suskind

Apr 2014 · Sold by Disney Electronic Content

About this ebook

Now an Award-Winning Motion Picture. What if you were trapped in a Disney movie? In all of them, actually - from Dumbo to Peter Pan to The Lion King -- and had to learn about life and love mostly from what could be gleaned from animated characters, dancing across a screen of color? Asking this question opens a doorway to the most extraordinary of stories. It is the saga of Owen Suskind, who happens to be the son of one of America's most noted writers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind. He's also autistic. The twisting, 20-year journey of this boy and his family will change that way you see autism, old Disney movies, and the power of imagination to heal a shattered, upside-down world.

Ratings and reviews

Excellent but not all autistic children are like this. Some children are BORN with autism, like my son.

Yup, just follow their lead. And love .em

About the author

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind has written some of America's most important works of nonfiction, framing national debates while exploring the complexities of human experience. Mr. Suskind's latest book,Confidence Men (September, 2011), is a multi-layered narrative about the fall of the U.S. economy, the rise of Barack Obama, and the President's harrowing battle to take control of his White House and earn the confidence of the American people. His previous works include the New York Times bestseller, The Way of the World, (August, 2008), about the forces fighting the global "hearts and minds" struggle at a time when awesomely destructive weapons are available to the common man; The One Percent Doctrine (June, 2006), a signature work on how the U.S. government frantically improvised to fight a new kind of war after 9/11; The Price of Loyalty (Jan 2004), a sweeping tour of the inner workings of the American government in the modern era; and A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy (January, 1998) a critically-acclaimed bestseller that has redefined national debates on race, class and achievement. In addition to his books, he often appears on network television and has been a contributor for The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. Mr. Suskind was the Wall Street Journal's senior national affairs reporter from 1993 until his departure in 2000, and won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. He currently lives in Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA with his wife, Cornelia Kennedy Suskind.