Song Without Words: Discovering My Deafness Halfway through Life

A "fascinating memoir" of living with partial deafness that offers new insight into the nature of language (Booklist).

Much has been written about the profoundly deaf, but the lives of the nearly thirty million partially deaf people in the United States today remain hidden. Song without Words tells the astonishing story of a man who, at the age of thirty-four, discovered that he had been unable to hear higher ranges of speech since a bout of scarlet fever childhood, yet somehow managed to n...