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Seeing Voices (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375704079)
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xThe renowned neurologist and bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat takes us on a journey into the world of deaf culture, and the underpinnings of the remarkable visual language of the congenitally deaf. "This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought.... One of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."
Author: Oliver Sacks
ISBN-10: 0375704078
ISBN-13: 9780375704079
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2000
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.63d
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 09/12/2003 pg. 158
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."
Author: Oliver Sacks
ISBN-10: 0375704078
ISBN-13: 9780375704079
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2000
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.63d
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 09/12/2003 pg. 158
By Oliver Sacks
xOLIVER SACKS was a neurologist, writer, and professor of medicine. Born in London in 1933, he moved to New York City in 1965, where he launched his medical career and began writing case studies of his patients. Called the "poet laureate of medicine" by The New York Times, Sacks is the author of thirteen books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Awakenings, which inspired an Oscar-nominated film and a play by Harold Pinter. He was the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2008 for services to medicine. He died in 2015.
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