Sound : a memoir of healing lost and found /
In this surprising and moving book, award-winning writer Bella Bathurst shares the extraordinary true story of how she lost her hearing and eventually regained it and what she learned from her twelve years of deafness. Diving into a wide-ranging exploration of silence and noise, she interviews psych...
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| Language: | English |
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Vancouver :
Greystone Books,
[2017]
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| Summary: | In this surprising and moving book, award-winning writer Bella Bathurst shares the extraordinary true story of how she lost her hearing and eventually regained it and what she learned from her twelve years of deafness. Diving into a wide-ranging exploration of silence and noise, she interviews psychologists, ear surgeons and professors to uncover fascinating insights about the science of sound. But she also speaks with ordinary people who are deaf or have lost their hearing, including musicians, war veterans and factory workers, to offer a perceptive, thought-provoking look at what sound means to us. If sight gives us the world, then hearing, or our ability to listen, gives us our connections with other people. But, as this smart, funny and profoundly honest examination reveals, our relationship with sound is both more personal and far more complex than we might expect. |
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| Item Description: | Previously published under title: Sound : stories of healing lost and found. |
| Physical Description: | 210 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781771643825 177164382X |