Shouting Won't Help Why I--And 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You

Name: Shouting Won't Help Why I--And 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You
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ISBN: 9781250043566

ISBN-10: 1250043565

ISBN-13: 9781250043566

Edition: N/A

Authors: Katherine Bouton

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For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at "The New York Times," at daily editorial meetings she couldnt hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she was "the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century." Audiologists agree that were experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss--17 percent of the population. And hearing loss is not exclusively a product of growing old. The usual onset is between the ages of nineteen and forty-four,…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 2/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.14" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English