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Hardcover:

9780300144284 | Yale Univ Pr, September 30, 2014, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780300219852 | Yale Univ Pr, March 22, 2016, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: "Extraordinary...An unsparing but deeply compassionate inquiry into [family] life." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAs Allen Shawn probed the sources of his anxieties while writing the acclaimed Wish I Could Be There, he realized that his fate was inextricably linked to his autistic twin sister...read more

Hardcover:

9781410436160 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 2011), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism.

Paperback:

9780143120223 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 28, 2012), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "Extraordinary.

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Product Description: A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism. When Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two, Mary began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed many years later as autism. Understanding Mary and making her life a happy one appeared to be impossible for the Shawns...read more
By William Hughes (narrator) and Allen Shawn

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441785770 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 30, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism.

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Product Description: A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism. When Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two, Mary began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed many years later as autism. Understanding Mary and making her life a happy one appeared to be impossible for the Shawns...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441785756 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 30, 2010), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781441785749 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 30, 2010), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism.

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Product Description: A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism. When Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two, Mary began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed many years later as autism. Understanding Mary and making her life a happy one appeared to be impossible for the Shawns...read more
By William Hughes (narrator) and Allen Shawn

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441785763, titled "Twin: A Memoir" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 30, 2010), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism.

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The memoir of the agoraphobic son of New Yorker editor William Shawn describes his relationship with his brilliant playwright and actor brother Wallace, his twin sister's institutionalization for autism at the age of eight, and the strict household taboos that affected his own mental state. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780670038428 | 1 edition (Viking Pr, February 1, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 'Allen Shawn is afraid of heights, water, fields, parking lots, tunnels, and unknown roads.

Paperback:

9780143113072 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 29, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The memoir of the agoraphobic son of New Yorker editor William Shawn describes his relationship with his brilliant playwright and actor brother Wallace, his twin sister's institutionalization for autism at the age of eight, and the strict household taboos that affected his own mental state.

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Product Description: for violin and pianoOriginally included in the piano collection A Dance Album, Shawn's piece is arranged here for violin with the same fervor and excitement.

Paperback:

9780193868472 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 22, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: for violin and pianoOriginally included in the piano collection A Dance Album, Shawn's piece is arranged here for violin with the same fervor and excitement.

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Product Description: for string orchestraThe work presents two contrasting moods in alternation. It begins with brooding, lyical music that gradually picks up strength and intensity, bursting out into a fast tempo with contrapuntal ideas that have an athletic character...read more

Paperback:

9780193868342 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 22, 2005, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: for string orchestraThe work presents two contrasting moods in alternation.

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A composer delves into the life and times of Arnold Schoenberg through a series of linked essays that retrace the steps of his career and unlock his radical approach to music.

Hardcover:

9780374105907 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A composer delves into the life and times of Arnold Schoenberg through a series of linked essays that retrace the steps of his career and unlock his radical approach to music.

Paperback:

9780674011014 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 30, 2003, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: A varied collection of pieces for the advanced student or for concert use in popular dance styles (including tango, rag, boogie-woogie). The pieces can be played individually or as a suite.

Paperback:

9780193862968 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 19, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A varied collection of pieces for the advanced student or for concert use in popular dance styles (including tango, rag, boogie-woogie).

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