Shouting won't help : why I--and 50 million other Americans-- can't hear you
Title:
Shouting won't help : why I--and 50 million other Americans-- can't hear you
Author:
Bouton, Katherine, 1947-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Physical Description:
viii, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
A memoir from the New York editor and writer in which she explores the invisible disability of deafness from personal, psychological, and physiological perspectives.
Language:
English
Contents:
Losing it -- Voices : Ben Luxon -- Why? -- Voices : Ross Wank -- Bring in 'da noise! -- Voices : Jacqui Metzger -- You can't see it, but I can't hear you -- Voices : Toni Iacolucci -- Am I deaf or just dumb? -- Voices : Jay Alan Zimmerman -- "They don't scream, 'I'm wearing hearing aids!!!'" -- Voices : Richard Einhorn -- And then you have to pay for it -- Voices : Robert Astle -- Cyborg : cochlear implants -- Voices : Lorie Singer -- Wig tape, and that pig outdoors -- Voices : Karin Olsoe -- How to be a deaf theater editor, and other challenges of real life -- Voices : Isaiah Jackson -- The ugly stepsisters : tinnitus and vertigo -- Voices : Melissa -- Chicks and fish do it. Why can't we? -- Voices : Eugene Kaplan -- In the land of the near deaf.
Personal Subject:
ISBN:
9780374263041
Format :
Book
