Born on the shores of Lake Ontario, Grania O Neill suffers a childhood illness that destroys her hearing. Grania s life without sound is also a life bounded by a powerful family love that tries to protect her from suffering. But when it becomes clear that Grania can no longer thrive among the hearing, her family sends her to the Ontario School for the Deaf. There, protected from the often unforgiving world outside, she learns sign language and speech. And there she meets Jim Lloyd, a hearing man, and the two, in ...
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Born on the shores of Lake Ontario, Grania O Neill suffers a childhood illness that destroys her hearing. Grania s life without sound is also a life bounded by a powerful family love that tries to protect her from suffering. But when it becomes clear that Grania can no longer thrive among the hearing, her family sends her to the Ontario School for the Deaf. There, protected from the often unforgiving world outside, she learns sign language and speech. And there she meets Jim Lloyd, a hearing man, and the two, in wonderment, begin to create a new emotional vocabulary that encompasses both sound and silence. But a war is raging on the other side of the world. Only two weeks after their wedding, Jim must leave home to serve as a stretcher-bearer on the blood-soaked battlefields of Flanders. During this long and brutal war of attrition, Jim and Grania are pulled to the centre of cataclysmic events that will alter civilisation forever.
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Very Good. Very Good Jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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Fine in Near fine jacket. Fine/Near fine. Sceptre, 2003. First UK edition-2nd printing(3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Red hardback(blue lettering to the spine) in fine condition, with Dj(small tear on the edge of the back Dj cover, a couple of small nicks, crease and scratch on the Dj cover) in near fine condition. The book is new with light shelf wear on the Dj cover.384pp. Price un-clipped. Heavy book.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Fine condition, very minor softening at top and base spine, in a similar dustjacket. This copy is SIGNED by the author-quite scarce. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
This story is set in south-eastern Ontario during World War 1 and before. It begins with the sudden deafening of a five year old girl and chronicles the process of learning to communicate. She is taught by her grandmother to speak audibly. She also goes to a school for the deaf to learn sign language and to get an education. While there, she meets her future husband, Jim (whom she calls Chim), who can hear. They marry and he is sent off to be an ambulance attendant / litter carrier in the war. They correspond over that time. It also follows the course of the war and the things he experienced. It is a little slow moving at times, but very insightful into the world of the deaf and learning to communicate.