The Feel Of Silence

Author Bonnie Tucker does not believe in the philosophy that "deaf is dandy". Her book focuses on the real problems and frustrations of being deaf, and how she has learned to cope with her deafness.

Summary

A memoir of the author's experience as a profoundly deaf infant who became an expert lipreader, and who never learned sign language or met another deaf person until her mid-thirties. It follows her story as she made it through college, to become a corporate litigator.

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie Tucker, Bonnie P. Tucker, Bonnie Poitras Tucker
• Assisted by: Fred Hafferty (Editor)
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.1995
• EAN: 9781566393522
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-352-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Health Society And Policy; Health Society and Policy; Health, Society, & Policy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies