Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a
strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology,
adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to
the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority
struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes
astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of
communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people
as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well
as revelatory, work."