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Editorial Reviews
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In this witty, warm, and sensitive memoir, a successful lawyer and professor recalls her life as a child, student, wife, mother, and grandmother. Tucker had to battle against all odds because she also happened to be profoundly deaf. In a poignant, compelling manner, she recounts how she accommodated to the hearing world, becoming a skilled lipreader without learning sign language and never meeting another deaf person until her mid-thirties. Again and again, Tucker emphasizes how important it was for her to be in the mainstream of society and to be involved with life, despite the many difficult choices her disability caused. The humor, anger, sadness, victory, and frustration she expresses combine to leave readers with a refreshing understanding of hearing loss. Recommended for general readers.?Emily Ferren, Carroll Cty. P.L., Westminster, Md.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Midwest Book Review
The Feel Of Silence is an intimate memoir interlaced with moving examples of the ironies and trials of accommodating to a hearing world by one who was profoundly deaf since infancy. After spending 17 years as a wife and mother, Bonnie Tucker found herself divorced and with several children to support. Alternately angry and sad, funny and introspective, The Feel Of Silence is Tucker's explanation of how she sometimes "bluffed" instead of announcing her deafness. She became an expert lip-reader who never learned sign language and did not meet another deaf person until her mid-thirties. Her compelling story (she became a successful corporate attorney and Professor of Law at Arizona State University) propel the reader through an odyssey of emotions -- the tension inherent in a battle against the odds in a world that takes ringing telephones, repairmen knocking at the door, and the rapid-fire debates of classroom and courtroom for granted.
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In this witty, warm, and sensitive memoir, a successful lawyer and professor recalls her life as a child, student, wife, mother, and grandmother. Tucker had to battle against all odds because she also happened to be profoundly deaf. In a poignant, compelling manner, she recounts how she accommodated to the hearing world, becoming a skilled lipreader without learning sign language and never meeting another deaf person until her mid-thirties. Again and again, Tucker emphasizes how important it was for her to be in the mainstream of society and to be involved with life, despite the many difficult choices her disability caused. The humor, anger, sadness, victory, and frustration she expresses combine to leave readers with a refreshing understanding of hearing loss. Recommended for general readers.?Emily Ferren, Carroll Cty. P.L., Westminster, Md.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Midwest Book Review
The Feel Of Silence is an intimate memoir interlaced with moving examples of the ironies and trials of accommodating to a hearing world by one who was profoundly deaf since infancy. After spending 17 years as a wife and mother, Bonnie Tucker found herself divorced and with several children to support. Alternately angry and sad, funny and introspective, The Feel Of Silence is Tucker's explanation of how she sometimes "bluffed" instead of announcing her deafness. She became an expert lip-reader who never learned sign language and did not meet another deaf person until her mid-thirties. Her compelling story (she became a successful corporate attorney and Professor of Law at Arizona State University) propel the reader through an odyssey of emotions -- the tension inherent in a battle against the odds in a world that takes ringing telephones, repairmen knocking at the door, and the rapid-fire debates of classroom and courtroom for granted.
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