Beschreibung
'How much do I beat myself up about the fact that he's my son? A lot.'
On 14 December 2012, twenty-year-old Adam Lanza shot his mother dead, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, opened fire and killed twenty children and six adults. No motive has ever been uncovered.
Adam Lanza's father is still searching for answers and in this moving interview Andrew Solomon tells his story.
This ebook also includes a chapter on children who commit crime from Solomon's Wellcome Trust Book Prize-winning book,Far from the Tree: Parents, children and the search for identity. ('A book everyone should read' Julie Myerson; 'Extraordinary, moving'Spectator)
Autorenportrait
Andrew Solomon holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge; is a professor of psychology at Columbia University and President of PEN American Center; and is a regular contributor to theGuardian, theNew Yorker, and theNew YorkTimes. A lecturer and activist, he is the author ofFar from the Tree: Parents,Children, and the Search for Identity, which won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other awards; andThe Noonday Demon:An Atlas of Depression, which won the National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. His TED talks have been viewed over 12 million times. A dual UK/US national, he lives in London and New York.www.andrewsolomon.com.
Schlagzeile
When the television cameras have gone and the victims are being mourned, what's next for the killer's family? Will they ever understand what went wrong?
The prize-winning author of Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon, talks to the father of the Sandy Hook killer.
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