Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
by:
Myron Uhlberg (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009BTOC8C
Publish date: February 3rd 2009
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Good book, for all the obvious reasons.We are different people than our parents. Due to the basic fact that we, by definition, are of a different generation than our parents, we can never fully and completely get each other. Times change - that's a fact, however slowly - and the changes in political...
You know I like a book when I start writing down quotes from it. I'm not a quote person; I don't remember dialogue. I prefer ideas and concepts to the words people choose to express them in. But I gotta say, this book is written beautifully:"Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the oce...
A sweet but not treacly memoir by a hearing son of deaf parents. Uhlberg nicely balances characterizations of his parents' speech (particularly his father's) as beautiful, visual, and expressive against the limitations imposed on them by a hearing world that sees them as unintelligent. He also artic...
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