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Sound : Stories Of Music Connection And Hearing Lost And Found
Hardback Edition: 1
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next
twelve years deafness shaped her life, until, in 2009, everything changed again.
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Sound draws on this extraordinary experience, exploring what it is like to lose your hearing and - as Bella eventually did - to get it back, and what that teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.
Pages : 210
Publisher : Profile Books Ltd. (UK)
Publication date : 2017-05-24
Subjects: Non-fiction, Medicine, Health And Personal Development