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Books about Books, Book Lovers & Language
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Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
by Myron Uhlberg
Hardcover: 3 Feb 2009
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| By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. |
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Firmin
by Sam Savage
Paperback: 1 Jan 2009
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| Firmin is a rat born in a book (a shredded copy of Finneggans Wake), who finds the books he consumes also consume his soul. He becomes a vagabond and philosopher, struggling with mortality and meaning. |
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People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 1 Jan 2009
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| From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. |
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