Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found - Rilegato

Bathurst, Bella

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ISBN 10: 1781257752 ISBN 13: 9781781257753

Casa editrice: Profile Books, 2017

Riassunto

In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life, until, in 2009, everything changed again. Sound draws on this extraordinary experience, exploring what it is like to lose your hearing and - as Bella eventually did - to get it back, and what that teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise. She investigates the science behind deafness, hearing loss among musicians, soldiers and factory workers, sign language, and what the deaf know about these subjects that the hearing don't. If sight gives us the world, then hearing - or our ability to listen - gives us each other. But, as this engaging and intelligent examination reveals, our relationship with sound is both personal and far, far more complex than we might expect. Published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. wellcomecollection.org

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Recensione

A book to remind us to treasure the gift of sound. (Laura Freeman Times 2017-05-06)

Fascinating ... Bathurst is a restless, curious writer, and she interweaves the story of her own experiences with imaginative research around hearing and sound ... After reading this book, I found myself listening in a richer and more interested way. (Alice O'Keeffe Guardian 2017-05-06)

This is a moving and fascinating book, all about sound and what it means to be human. It has its share of sound and fury, and benefits from a journalist's ability to listen. Many people with hearing loss, and more without, would benefit from hearing its message. (Katy Guest FT 2017-05-20)

A hymn to the faculty of hearing ... written with passion and intelligence ... a brave and important work (Rupert Christiansen Literary Review 2017-05-01)

An empathetic, sensitive look at how a physical loss can transform both the way you understand the world and how you live in it. (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express 2017-05-14)

An engaging blend of memoir, biography and history (Woman and Home 2017-06-08)

Fascinating and illuminating ... an eminently readable tour through the world of hearing loss that deserves a wide readership. (Liz Thomson The Arts Desk 2017-05-14)

Bathurst paints a vivid picture ... By writing this heartfelt book, she has helped to alleviate the sense of isolation (suffered by the deafened). (Ysenda Maxtone Graham Country Life 2017-05-24)

A poignant exploration ... terrific (Helen Brown Daily Telegraph 2017-05-27)

Praise for Bella Bathurst:
'Bella Bathurst has built a lamp herself: it illuminates the work of a literary hero, a family business, a habit of mind and a Scottish period ... from the summit of this first terrific book she looks to become one of the best biographers of her generation'

(Andrew O’Hagan The Times)

Descrizione del libro

An astonishing personal journey from hearing to deafness and back again helps Bella Bathurst explore what sound, listening and music mean to us

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• Editore: Profile Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1781257752
• ISBN 13: 9781781257753
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224