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My Sense of Silence : Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness / Lennard J. Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
- Series:
- Creative nonfiction (Urbana, Ill.)
- Creative nonfiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deaf people--Family relationships--United States--Case studies.
- Deaf people.
- Deaf parents--United States--Biography.
- Deaf parents.
- Children of deaf parents--United States--Biography.
- Children of deaf parents.
- Davis, Lennard J., 1949-.
- Davis, Lennard J.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana, [Illinois] ; Chicago, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Selected as an "Editors Choice" by the Chicago Tribune Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working-class Jewish immigrant parents. Gracefully slipping through memory, regret, longing, and redemption, My Sense of Silence is an eloquent remembrance of human ties and human failings.
- Contents:
- The grain of sounds
- Language and the word of my father
- The two mothers
- Brother's keeper
- Honeymoon with mom
- Schooling
- Adolescence
- College and other awakenings.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252025334
- 0252025334
- OCLC:
- 861792860
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