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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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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
  • Correction of Hearing Impairment
  • Deaf > United States > Biography
  • Deaf lawyers > United States > Biography
  • Hearing Loss > rehabilitation
  • Lawyers
  • Persons With Hearing Impairments
  • Shea, Gerald, 1942-
  • Shea, Gerald
  • United States
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