Seeing Voices
16 June 2011Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'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 by Oliver Sacks 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...
Details
16 June 2011320 pages
9780330537155Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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
A passionate meditation on the richness of sign language.Independent
Scholarly and carefully documented, Seeing Voices makes the gigantic leap so essential to understanding total deafness.Sunday Telegraph
