Seeing Voices

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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/28/2000
ISBN: 9780375704079
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.63d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 09/12/2003 pg. 158