基本信息出版社：Penguin (Non-Classics)
页码：290 页
出版日期：2007年03月
ISBN：0143038907
International Standard Book Number：0143038907
条形码：9780143038900
EAN：9780143038900
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 Like The Lovely Bones and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Cammie McGovern??s breakout novel is at once a hypnotic thriller and an affecting portrait of people as real as our next-door neighbors. In Eye Contact, two children vanish in the woods behind their elementary school. Hours later, nine-year-old Adam is found alive, the sole witness to his playmate??s murder. But because Adam has autism, he is a silent witness. Only his mother, Cara, can help decode his behavior for the police. As the suspense ratchets, Eye Contact becomes a heart-stopping exploration of the bond between a mother and a very special child.
作者简介 Cammie McGovern was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has won numerous awards for her short fiction. She is the author of one previous novel, The Art of Seeing.
媒体推荐 Eye Contact is a page-turner. . . . But it??s also . . . a nuanced, poignant exploration of how all of us??with or without autism??struggle to find our place in the world. -- Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep

An airtight thriller that illuminates the exhausting, isolating realities of parenting special- needs children. -- People

An enticing drama. -- Entertainment Weekly

Deeply moving, actually gripping . . . Cammie McGovern . . . brings to the page an empathetic understanding of the lock that autism places on a mother??s child. -- New York Daily News

So detailed and illuminating are McGovern??s descriptions of Adam . . . that she offers, in essence, a primer on the nature of autism. Eye Contact is compelling by virtue of its spiky and in-transition characters. Psychologically rich and sensationally eventful. -- Chicago Tribune
编辑推荐 An airtight thriller that illuminates the exhausting, isolating realities of parenting special- needs children. (People)^An enticing drama. (Entertainment Weekly)^Deeply moving, actually gripping . . . Cammie McGovern . . . brings to the page an empathetic understanding of the lock that autism places on a mother??s child. (New York Daily News)^Eye Contact is a page-turner. . . . But it??s also . . . a nuanced, poignant exploration of how all of us??with or without autism??struggle to find our place in the world. (Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep)^So detailed and illuminating are McGovern??s descriptions of Adam . . . that she offers, in essence, a primer on the nature of autism. Eye Contact is compelling by virtue of its spiky and in-transition characters. Psychologically rich and sensationally eventful. (Chicago Tribune)