The Resource The Martian Child
The Martian Child
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The item The Martian Child represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Merrimack Valley Library Consortium.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The Martian Child represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Merrimack Valley Library Consortium.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Gerrold, a science fiction writer from California, adopts a son who has been classified as "unadoptable" due to his violent emotional outbursts resulting from abuse. Another side-effect of his turbulent early years is that he believes himself to be a Martian. Gerrold begins the long, involving work of trying to earn the acceptance of Dennis, a hyperactive eight-year-old who desperately wants a father's love, but is so insecure he feels he must be an alien. Gerrold's recounting of the first two years with Dennis ends with the climax of Dennis running away and waiting in a city park at night for the flying saucers to come and reclaim him. Funny, endearing, and at times, heartbreaking, this is a beautifully written testament to fatherhood.This book is semiautobiographical. Gerrold did adopt a son, but he heard about a boy who thought he was a Martian from another adoptive father
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- 9781481549943
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- The Martian Child
- Title
- The Martian Child
- Summary
- Gerrold, a science fiction writer from California, adopts a son who has been classified as "unadoptable" due to his violent emotional outbursts resulting from abuse. Another side-effect of his turbulent early years is that he believes himself to be a Martian. Gerrold begins the long, involving work of trying to earn the acceptance of Dennis, a hyperactive eight-year-old who desperately wants a father's love, but is so insecure he feels he must be an alien. Gerrold's recounting of the first two years with Dennis ends with the climax of Dennis running away and waiting in a city park at night for the flying saucers to come and reclaim him. Funny, endearing, and at times, heartbreaking, this is a beautifully written testament to fatherhood.This book is semiautobiographical. Gerrold did adopt a son, but he heard about a boy who thought he was a Martian from another adoptive father
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- Gerrold, David
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- The Martian Child
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- OVERDRIVE:5d400f7d-714e-4a3b-9f1c-31a0b00736a8
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- True
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- 9781481549943
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- other
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- Label
- The Martian Child
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:5d400f7d-714e-4a3b-9f1c-31a0b00736a8
- Dimensions
- not applicable
- Form of item
- electronic
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781481549943
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- other
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Special playback characteristics
- unknown
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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