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Title: Seeing Voices
Subtitle: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
Author: Oliver Sacks
Narrator: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-21-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 109 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind
Publisher's Summary:
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".
PLEASE NOTE: Some changes have been made to the original manuscript with the permission of Oliver Sacks.
Critic Reviews:
"This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought. Sacks [is] one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time." (
Los Angeles Times Book Review)
"Fascinating and richly rewarding. Sacks is a profoundly wise observer." (
The Plain Dealer)
