Chattering by Louise Stern
Louise Stern's stories are peopled with brave young girls, out to party, travel the world, go a little bit wild. The one thing that marks them out from their peers is that they have grown up deaf. They communicate with the outside world via a complicated mixture of sign language, lip-reading, note-scribbling, guesswork and instinct. Yet they are full of daring, ready for adventures that take them into unfamiliar places and strange, cockeyed relationships with people whose actions they observe, but never wholly understand. It is this sense of dislocation from common experience that marks out Louise Stern's original voice. She is fully engaged in the world we recognise and share, but the way she observes it sets her apart. Her eyes are keen; she notices things we would never see; she is quick to judge, wary, suspicious and vulnerable. She experiences the world like a voyeur, always watching, yet able to retreat to an interior silence that nobody from the outside can ever reach.
Louise Stern grew up in Los Angeles California, the fourth generation deaf in her family. She has lived in London for five years. She works for Sam Taylor-Wood and is the founder and publisher of Maurice, a contemporary art magazine for children
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847081186 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847081185 |
| Titre | Chattering |
| Auteur | Louise Stern |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Granta Books |
| Année de publication | 2010-06-03 |
| Nombre de pages | 208 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
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