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What´s That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness
Henry Kisor
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Description for What´s That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness
Paperback. An updated version of the memoir that changed perceptions of the deaf Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Henry Kisor lost his hearing at age three to meningitis and encephalitis but went on to excel in the most verbal of professions as a literary journalist. This new and expanded edition of Kisor's engrossing memoir recounts his life as a deaf person in a hearing world and addresses heartening changes over the last two decades due to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and advancements in cochlear implants and modes of communication. Kisor tells of his parents' drive to raise him as a member of the hearing and speaking world by teaching him effective lip-reading skills at a young ... Read more
Henry Kisor lost his hearing at age three to meningitis and encephalitis but went on to excel in the most verbal of professions as a literary journalist. This new and expanded edition of Kisor's engrossing memoir recounts his life as a deaf person in a hearing world and addresses heartening changes over the last two decades due to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and advancements in cochlear implants and modes of communication. Kisor tells of his parents' drive to raise him as a member of the hearing and speaking world by teaching him effective lip-reading skills at a young ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077395
SKU
V9780252077395
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Henry Kisor
Henry Kisor is a retired book review editor and literary columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. He is the author of Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America and Flight of the Gin Fizz: Midlife at 4,500 Feet, as well as three mystery novels, Season's Revenge, A Venture into Murder, and Cache of Corpses.
Reviews for What´s That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness
"A liberating document
and a heck of a good read."
Booklist "May well become an American classic."
New York Times "Genial and moving, sharp and witty."
Publishers Weekly "A truly enjoyable read."
Library Journal "I love this book. It is witty, profound, and unself-pitying. It is the best account of growing up deaf since David Wright's Deafness."
Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His ... Read more
and a heck of a good read."
Booklist "May well become an American classic."
New York Times "Genial and moving, sharp and witty."
Publishers Weekly "A truly enjoyable read."
Library Journal "I love this book. It is witty, profound, and unself-pitying. It is the best account of growing up deaf since David Wright's Deafness."
Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His ... Read more