Look Me in the Eye

Look Me in the Eye

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name =Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
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author =John Elder Robison
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country =USA
language =English
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genre =Autobiography
publisher =Random House
pub_date =September 25, 2007
media_type =Hardcover
pages =304 pp.
isbn =9780307395986
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"Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's" is an NY Times bestselling book by John Elder Robison published in 2007 by the Crown imprint of Random House. "Look Me in the Eye" is the author's story of growing up as a misfit in the 1960s, at a time when the Asperger diagnosis did not exist. The book chronicles Robison's life as he learns to fit in, without actually knowing why he was different. This struggle led to unusual career choices, including time with Pink Floyd's sound company, making special effects for the band Kiss, designing electronic games, and finally starting his own business repairing and restoring European cars. Robison finally learned about Asperger's in 1996, at age 40, and his life was transformed by the knowledge. He was first introduced to the public in his brother Augusten Burroughs' memoir "Running with Scissors". He wrote "Look Me in the Eye" in 2006, after the death of his father.

"Look Me in the Eye" was originally published in hardcover by the Crown imprint of Random House in the United states. The book is also available as a Random House Audiobook, with the abridged version narrated by the author. The paperback will be published by Three Rivers Press in September 2008. It's distributed to the North by Random House Canada. "Look Me in the Eye" is also published by Random House Australia and Random House New Zealand.

During 2008, foreign editions will be published in England, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and Taiwan.

The British edition is available from Ebury Books. The Portuguese edition is titled "Olhe Nos Meus Olhos - Minha vida com a Sindrome de Asperger". It was published by Larousse in May 2008.The German edition is titled "Schau mich nicht an!: Mein leben mit Asperger (Gebundene Ausgabe)". It will be published by Fackelträger-Verlag in September 2008.


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