Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf

Author: Sacks, Oliver
Publication date: 05/07/2012
Imprint: Picador
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330523646

Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices 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 of silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remarkable book, Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing learn to categorise their respective worlds – and how they convey and communicate those experiences to others.