'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development o
f an extraordinary and expressive language' Evening Standard Imaginative and ins
ightful, 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 s
ilence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remar
kable book, Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the differ
ent ways in which the deaf and the hearing learn to categorize their respective
worlds -- and how they convey and communicate those experiences to others.
