Genie: An Abused Child’s Flight From Silence
Russ Rymer
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Year
- 1994
- ISBN-13
- 9780060924652
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Language acquisitionChild abuseScientific ethics
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1993)
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