| Description |
xii, 221 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
I FOUND -- The Forbidden Experiment -- A House Behind Royal Palms -- Her Life Came to an End on Her Wedding Day -- The Girl in the Little Room -- Hypothesis and Heresy -- The Trouble with Noam -- 26 "He's Got a Halo. Is That OK?" -- Press, Doctors; Do-gooders, Kooks -- An Armed Camp Very Quickly -- Thriving -- A Meeting; "I Just Gives Her Love" -- Automaton? -- II PREMONITIONS -- France, 1800 - The Wild Boy, Discovered -- And Forgotten -- Where a Kiss Is a Plosive -- Pitiful, Strange, and Pretty -- Anything Made of Plastic -- A Home -- "This Child Is Not for Sale" -- III WHEN SINGING WAS ALL FOR HER BENEFIT -- A New Home -- "She's Doing It!" -- Benevolent Strangers -- So He Became a Dog -- A Ghost in Her Daughter's Life -- Propriety and Gossip - Irene Sees -- A Much More Jaundiced Eye -- IV LOST -- Slammed Doors -- Mechanisms -- “Yes, You Had Perfect Little Brain Waves" -- Curtiss Finds the Knot -- What Does It Mean to Be Human? -- Petty Skirmishes, Diplomatic Failures -- Whatever the Estate Could Pay -- A Law Suit -- No Forwarding Address -- V THE WORLD WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND -- Revenge -- And Revelation -- A Last Glimpse -- A Bitterness -- But I Wonder, What Would I Say? - Afterword |
| Notes |
"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." - publisher website |
| Subject |
Genie, 1957-
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| SUBJECT |
Language acquisition & language disorders. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89666311
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| Subject |
Abused children -- California -- Biography.
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Child development -- Case studies.
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Child development.
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Language acquisition.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
92053327 |
| ISBN |
0060169109 |
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