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Song without words : discovering my deafness halfway through life / Gerald Shea.
- Title
- Song without words : discovering my deafness halfway through life / Gerald Shea.
- Author
- Shea, Gerald, 1942-
- Publication
- Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HV2534.S.S54 A3 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 308 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Reveals how the author discovered at the age of thirty-four that he had been partially deaf since childhood and shares how he compensated through his amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- Note
- "A Merloyd Lawrence Book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-297) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The invisible curtain -- House of mysteries -- Voices in the air -- A schoolboy's lyricals -- Gaudeamus -- Law school mysteries -- Language in air, language in light -- The sounds of silence -- A voice untouched -- Glass, steel, and Babel -- All-nighters and ulcers -- Friends and foes -- Poetry and burnout -- Paris in lyricals -- "Shea's not getting it!" -- A brain on overtime -- Hearing aids at last -- The wind in the willows -- Almost whole -- Lilacs and minarets -- International counsel -- Prague, Budapest, and the limits of technology -- Life as a lyrical? -- Freedom -- A second peace.
- ISBN
- 9780306821936 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0306821931 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780306821943 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2012042840
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library