Deaf Sentence

Opis książki: Deaf Sentence

When the university merged his department, 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 and the monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his eighty-nine year old father. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, of which he first became aware in his forties, and which has steadily worsened since. It is now a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment, leading Desmond into continual mistakes, misunderstandings, follies and faux pas. 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 and death, ageing and mortality, the comedy and tragedy of human lives.