Myron Uhlberg
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Myron Uhlberg was born the hearing son of deaf parents at a time when American Sign Language was not well established and deaf people were often dismissed as being unintelligent. In this young reader adaptation of his acclaimed memoir, Hands of My Father, Uhlberg recalls the daily difficulties and hidden joys of growing up as the intermediary between his parents' silent world and the world of the hearing."--Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
A hearing boy and his deaf parents from Brooklyn enjoy the rides, food, and sights of 1930's Coney Island where the father longs to know about how everything sounds and his son tries to interpret the noisy surroundings through sign language and a wealth of new words learned from a trip to the library.
Author
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Physical Desc
xvii, 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
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.