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This title in other formats:Twins: And What They Tell Us about Who We Areby Lawrence Wright
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A New York Times Notable Book for 1998 Critical acclaim for Lawrence Wright's A Rhone-Poulenc Science Prize Finalist "This is a book about far more than twins: it is about what twins can tell us about ourselves."—The New York Times "With plenty of amazing stories about the similarities and differences of twins, Wright respectfully shows, too, how their special circumstance in life challenges our notions of individuality. A truly fascinating but sometimes spooky (Mengele's experiments with twins at Auschwitz figure among Wright's examples) study."—American Library Association "Like so much of Wright's work, this book is a pleasure to read. Because he writes so well, without pushing a particular point of view, he soon has you pondering questions you have tended to comfortably ignore."—Austin American-Statesman "Informative and entertaining . . . a provocative subject well considered by a talented journalist."—Kirkus Reviews Synopsis:Twins threaten us because they undermine our notion of identity. We think we are who we are because of the life we have lived. We think we form the character and values of our children by the way we raise them.... But when we read about twins who have been separated at birth and reunited in middle age only to discover that in many respects they have become the same person, it suggests that life is a charade, that the experiences that we presume have shaped us are little more than ornaments or curiosities we have picked up along the way. --from the text Praise for Lawrence Wright's Remembering Satan Thoughtful and gripping. --Michiko Kakutani The New York Times Stunning. --Walter Reich The New York Times Book Review Catapults Wright to the front rank of American journalists. --Newsweek About the AuthorLAWRENCE WRIGHT, an award-winning staff writer for the New Yorker, is the author of Remembering Satan, Saints and Sinners, and In the New World. He has also written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times Magazine, and Texas Monthly. Mr. Wright lives in Austin, Texas. Table of ContentsTwo Lives—One Personality? The Nature-Nurture Wars. The Secret Study. The Minnesota Experience. The Critics Respond. Twin Mysteries. The Same, but Different. The Emotional Life. The Environment We Make. Beyond Nature versus Nurture. Bibliography. Index.
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