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What is Parallel Play about?

An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn’t know he had Asperger’s syndrome until he became a man.In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of The Washington Post, work that the Pulitzer board called “lucid and illuminating.” Three years later, at the age of 45, he was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome–an autistic disorder characterized by often superior intellectual abilities but also by obsessive behavior, ineffective communication, and social awkwardness.In a personal chronicle that is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Page revisits his early days through the prism of newfound clarity. Here is the tale of a boy who could blithely recite the names and dates of all the United States’ presidents and their wives in order (backward upon request), yet lacked the coordination to participate in the simplest childhood games. It is the story of a child...

Author

Tim Page

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2009

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.88 / 5 (40 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14