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The empathy exams essays

A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others.

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Main Author:	Jamison, Leslie, 1983- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Empathy. Pain. Nurturing behavior. Essays.
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Summary:	A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others.
Item Description:	"2011 winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize"--Text.
Physical Description:	226 pages ; 21 cm
Awards:	Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, 2011.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222).
ISBN:	9781555976712 1555976719
Author Notes:	Leslie Jamison was born in Washington D.C. in 1983. She has worked as a baker, an office temp, an innkeeper, a tutor, and a medical actor. She is the author of The Gin Closet and The Empathy Exams: Essays. She is currently finishing a doctoral dissertation at Yale University about addiction narratives. (Bowker Author Biography)