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Seeing Voices

Seeing Voices

by OliverSacks (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

With Seeing Voices Dr Sacks launches us on a journey into the world of the deaf - which he explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers everywhere.

`Oliver Sacks, blessed with an understanding heart and poetic voice, speaks the language of the deaf. An exquisite, as well as revelatory, work' Studs Terkel

`This scholarly and carefully documented book is a landmark for deaf rights. It makes the gigantic, imaginative leap so essential to understanding total deafness' Jack Ashley, Sunday Telegraph

`Compelling . . . A journey well worth taking . . . One cannot read more than a few pages of Sacks without seeing something in a new way' Los Angeles Times

`Written by a hearing - and caring - neurologist who through empathy and contact has penetrated a long way into deaf culture. What he has written about should be compulsory reading - I do not recall another book which puts the issues so clearly for the rest of us' Alex Comfort, Guardian

`A manifesto characteristically humane and impassioned . . . Once more Sacks proves he is the doyen of science with a human face' Roy Porter, Sunday Times

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 9999
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 06 Feb 2009
ISBN 10: 0330507613
ISBN 13: 9780330507615

Media 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 One cannot read more than a few pages of Sacks without seeing something in a new way. His breadth of understanding and expression seems limitless. -- Kansas City Star A remarkable book, penetrating, subtle, persuasive... [It] will likely become a classic. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Author Bio
Oliver Sacks was educated in London, Oxford, California and New York. He is a professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings.