Colin Fischer
Un garçon extraordinaire
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- £8.99
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
Colin Fischer n'est pas un élève tout à fait comme les autres. Il excelle d'un point de vue intellectuel, mais a du mal à nouer des relations sur le plan émotionnel et doit consulter un manuel illustré pour décrypter les expressions des gens. Ainsi, tel un anthropologue toujours en observation, il analyse le comportement des jeunes de son âge.
Malgré le syndrome d'Asperger dont il est atteint ou peut-être grâce à lui, le voici qui marque à tous les coups de paniers au basket, trouve celui qui a apporté un revolver à la cantine et fait barrage à une énorme injustice…
Un roman hilarant et poignant sur l'autisme, par de jeunes auteurs scénaristes.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The screenwriting team behind X-Men: First Class and Thor make their YA debut with the story of a teenager with Asperger's syndrome solving a crime, a premise that can't help evoking Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Kids constantly target high school freshman Colin, who struggles to understand their facial expressions or jokes, and who sometimes barks when upset. When a gun goes off in the school cafeteria, Colin uses his considerable observational skills and powers of logic to prove that Wayne, a bully who put Colin's head in the toilet on the first day of school, wasn't responsible (when an incredulous Wayne asks Colin why he is helping, Colin simply replies, "You're innocent"). Through journal entries that begin each chapter and footnotes about everything from genetic chimerism to false dichotomies, readers get a strong sense of how Colin's brain works. Beyond Colin and his parents, though, the other characters are somewhat flat. Even so, readers will be drawn into the mystery and intrigued by Colin's vision of the world. Ages 12 up.
