DEAF SENTENCE (En papel)

DAVID LODGE, RANDON HOUSE INTERNATIONAL, 2008
ISBN 9781846551680

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Datos del libro

Nº de páginas: 320 págs.
Editorial: RANDON HOUSE INTERNATIONAL
Lengua: INGLÉS
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
ISBN: 9781846551680
Año edicón: 2008
Plaza de edición: LONDON

Sinopsis

Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness, ageing and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy of human lives.
When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the routine of the academic year and has lost his appetite for research. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort, while the rejuvenation of her appearance makes him uneasily conscious of the age gap between them. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on his aged father who stubbornly refuses to leave the house he is patently unable to live in with safety.
But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss -- a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment, leading Desmond into mistakes, misunderstandings and follies. It might be comic for others, but for the deaf person himself, it is no joke. It is his deafness which inadvertently involves Desmond with a young woman whose wayward behaviour threatens to destabilize his life completely.