DEAF SENTENCE Hardback - 2008
by Lodge, David
A witty, tender novel about thetravails of old middle age, froma Booker finalist
Desmond Bates is a recently retired linguisticsprofessor vexed by his encroaching deafness and atloose ends in his personal life. Without the purposefulroutine of the academic year, he finds his role reducedto that of escort and house-husband while his wife'slate-flowering career as the owner of a home designstore flourishes. The monotony of his days is relievedonly by wearisome journeys to London to check on thewelfare of his querulous, elderly father, an ex-dancemusician. But these discontents are nothing comparedto the affliction of hearing loss, which is a constantsource of domestic friction and social embarrassment.It is through his deafness that Desmond inadvertentlygets involved with a young woman who seeks his supportin matters academic and not so academic; andwhose wayward and unpredictable behavior threatensto destabilize his life completely. Deaf Sentence is afunny, moving account of one man's effort to come toterms with deafness and death, aging and mortality,the comedy and tragedy of human life.
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- Author Lodge, David
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First American E
- Pages 304
- Language EN
- Publisher Viking Adult, New York
- Date 2008-09-18
- ISBN 9780670019922
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