Deaf Sentence

2009-09-29 Fiction

Author : David Lodge
Release : 2009-09-29
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 569/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Deaf Sentence written by David Lodge. This book was released on 2009-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties. Vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life, Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a seemingly personable young American female student who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic, who finally threatens to destabilize his life completely with her unpredictable-and wayward-behavior. What emerges is a funny, moving account of one man's effort to come to terms with aging and mortality-a classic meditation on modern middle age that fans of David Lodge will love.

Deaf Sentence

2008 College teachers

Author : David Lodge
Release : 2008
Genre : College teachers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 747/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Deaf Sentence written by David Lodge. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. But his daily discontent is nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, which is a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment. In the popular imagination, he observes, deafness is comic, as blindness is tragic, but for the deaf person himself it is no joke. It is through his deafness that Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a young woman whose wayward and unpredictable behavior threatens to destabilize his life completely...

Song Without Words

2013-02-26 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Gerald Shea
Release : 2013-02-26
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 931/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Song Without Words written by Gerald Shea. This book was released on 2013-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age 34, Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow maintaining a prestigious legal career.

Death Sentence

2012-02-14 Fiction

Author : Brian Garfield
Release : 2012-02-14
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 734/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Death Sentence written by Brian Garfield. This book was released on 2012-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sequel to Death Wish, Paul Benjamin continues his vigilante killing spree Paul Benjamin was an ordinary New Yorker until a gang of drug addicts killed his wife and raped his daughter. When the police proved helpless, Benjamin bought a gun and found his own vengeance, methodically tracking the addicts and killing them one by one. Now he is in Chicago, and the cycle of violence is about to begin anew. On his first night in the city, he stumbles out of a bar in a bad part of town, pretending to be drunk. When two thugs set upon him, they find their quarry sober and armed. He kills them both, escaping before the police arrive. They will not be the last of Chicago’s criminal class to suffer his wrath. Written by Garfield as “penance” for the success of the grisly film adaptation of Death Wish, this sequel shows that when a decent man relies on violence to settle scores, murder becomes addictive.

The Sentence Is Death

2019-05-28 Fiction

Author : Anthony Horowitz
Release : 2019-05-28
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 857/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Sentence Is Death written by Anthony Horowitz. This book was released on 2019-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide stalk the pages of Anthony Horowitz’s brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne. “You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late . . . “ These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine—a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £3,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn’t drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the man’s many, many enemies did the deed? Baffled, the police are forced to bring in Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, the author Anthony, who’s really getting rather good at this murder investigation business. But as Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to hide. As our reluctant narrator becomes ever more embroiled in the case, he realizes that these secrets must be exposed—even at the risk of death . . .

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