Brian Hall is the author of the novels I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, Fall of Frost, and The Saskiad, in addition to three works of nonfiction. His journalism has appeared in publications such as Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
Praise for Madeleine's World:
"Even nonparents will be fascinated by Madeleine’s
World for the ways it delves deep into the thought patterns
and imaginative leaps readers half-remember from their own
childhoods; for parents, the book—in its insistence that
to pay attention is to love—can be almost unbearably
moving." —Slate, "The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25
Years"
"A most welcome book in a society that loudly celebrates the
sentimental notion of family while paying scant attention to the
hearts and minds of the messy, ecstatic, sometimes ugly and
endlessly eventful lives of the children who actually make families
possible . . . Hall stuns with his observational powers and
emotional truth . . . [and] succeeds dazzingly at making his
daughter and the toddler sensibility come alive." —Los Angeles
Times
"This wonderful 'biography' of a baby manages to avoid almost every
cliché in the child-development handbook. Using fresh, revealing
details, novelist Hall keeps his wits—and wit—about him . . . This
is an enthralling journey into a baby's dramatic world."
—Entertainment Weekly
"A delightful, resonant account of a journey we have all taken but,
for the most part, forgotten . . . Hall recreates the gains and
losses of growing up in all their bittersweet glory . . . By
investing Madeleine's tiny, often comic struggles with so much
meaning, Hall in turn confers an enormous dignity on all adults who
undertake the humble, relentless task of being there for small
children." —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Hall brims with imaginative and convincing interpretations of his
daughter's every eye-movement from birth onwards, his antennae
sharpened—but never biased—by love . . . One re-experiences the
world through Madeleine's eyes, and her closing words about death
are so full of human hope I cried." —The Observer (London)
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