Deaf Sentence
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141035703 (0141035706)
Publish date: June 1st 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Academic,
Humanities,
Language,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Academia
I heard about this book in a tv show here in Argentina where celebrities and famous people talk about their favourite books and authors. I thought the idea for the plot was really good but I was a bit disappointed with the end product.Let's start with the plot. This book is about a retired Linguisti...
The story seems to have been built around personal anecdotes of the author combined with the antics of characters that he has conjured up in his imagination. There is nothing wrong with that, and I would say that this approach is fairly common amongst good story-tellers.The book is very amusing. It ...