Deaf sentence
Lodge, David , 1935-
Deaf sentence / David Lodge - 1st American edition - New York, N.Y. : Viking , 2008. - 294 p. ; 24 cm
A witty, tender novel about the travails of old middle age, from a Booker finalist Desmond Bates is a recently retired linguistics professor vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life. Without the purposeful routine of the academic year, he finds his role reduced to that of escort and house-husband while his wife?s late-flowering career as the owner of a home design store flourishes. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his querulous, elderly father, an ex-dance musician. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, which is a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment. It is through his deafness that Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a young woman who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic; and whose wayward and unpredictable behavior threatens to destabilize his life completely. Deaf Sentenceis a funny, moving account of one man?s effort to come to terms with deafness and death, aging and mortality, the comedy and tragedy of human life.
9780670019922
2008001772
Older deaf people----Fiction
Aging----Fiction
Marital conflict----Fiction
Psychological fiction
PR6062.O36 / D43 2008
FIC LOD
Deaf sentence / David Lodge - 1st American edition - New York, N.Y. : Viking , 2008. - 294 p. ; 24 cm
A witty, tender novel about the travails of old middle age, from a Booker finalist Desmond Bates is a recently retired linguistics professor vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life. Without the purposeful routine of the academic year, he finds his role reduced to that of escort and house-husband while his wife?s late-flowering career as the owner of a home design store flourishes. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his querulous, elderly father, an ex-dance musician. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, which is a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment. It is through his deafness that Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a young woman who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic; and whose wayward and unpredictable behavior threatens to destabilize his life completely. Deaf Sentenceis a funny, moving account of one man?s effort to come to terms with deafness and death, aging and mortality, the comedy and tragedy of human life.
9780670019922
2008001772
Older deaf people----Fiction
Aging----Fiction
Marital conflict----Fiction
Psychological fiction
PR6062.O36 / D43 2008
FIC LOD
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