Book description
‘
Seeing Voices
is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an
extraordinary and expressive language’ Evening Standard
Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices
offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and
unfamiliar - for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of
silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In
this remarkable book, Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this,
including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing learn to
categorize their respective worlds - and how they convey and communicate
those experiences to others.
‘Seeing Voices
is a manifesto, characteristically humane and impassioned; once more,
Sacks proves he is the doyen of science with a human face’ Sunday Times
‘Empathetic, intelligent and compassionate’ Guardian
‘Scholarly and carefully documented, Seeing Voices
makes the gigantic leap so essential to understanding total deafness’
Sunday Telegraph
‘A passionate meditation on the richness of sign language’ Independent
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
.
