Hands of My Father A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

Name: Hands of My Father A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
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ISBN: 9780553806885

ISBN-10: 0553806882

ISBN-13: 9780553806885

Edition: 2009

Authors: Myron Uhlberg

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By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg's memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parentsand his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. "Does sound have rhythm?" my father asked. "Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?" Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg's deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. Uhlberg's first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: "I love you." But his second…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/3/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Prologue



The Sound of Silence


Memorabilia: A Fox in Brooklyn



The Child as Father of the Man


Memorabilia: The Language of Touch



The Fights


Memorabilia: Sounds in the Night



Another Child


Memorabilia: Trains, Trains, Trains



Heaven



Clothes Make the Boy



A Day in the City


Memorabilia: Gone Fishing



The Smell of Reading



Falling in Love



Tales Told


Memorabilia: What's in a Name



The Sound of Color



The Triangle and the Chihuahua



My Father's Language


Memorabilia: The Palmer Method



Parent-Teacher Night


Memorabilia: The Spider-Man of Ninth Street



A Boy in Uniform


Memorabilia: A Chip Off the Old Block



Brooklyn Bully



Polio


Memorabilia: The End of the Presidency



A Boy Becomes a Man



Vaudeville on 86th Street



Sounds from the Heart



My Brother's Keeper



Dad, Jackie, and Me



Silent Snow



Pigskin Dreams



Exodus



The Duke of Coney Island



Death, a Stranger


Epilogue