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Deafening a novel
Grania O'Neill, a young deaf woman in Canada, is sent to the Ontario School for the Deaf, where, protected from the hearing world and her overprotective parents, she learns sign language and falls in love with a hearing man, only to have him taken from her as World War I breaks out.
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- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180746
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/796378881#Topic/daisy_talking_books
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/796378881#Topic/guerre_mondiale_1914_1918_romans_nouvelles_etc
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- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/796378881#Topic/sourdes_romans_nouvelles_etc
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204832
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/796378881#Event/1914_1918
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/796378881#Topic/audiobooks_collection_fiction
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/796378881#Topic/recits_de_guerre
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036068
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- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/796378881#Place/ontario
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- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/796378881#Topic/histoires_d_amour
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- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1170627
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145220
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- "Grania is deaf, but after learning sign language and speech she meets and marries Jim. Soon after their wedding World War I erupts and their lives are forever changed."
- "Grania O'Neill, a young deaf woman in Canada, is sent to the Ontario School for the Deaf, where, protected from the hearing world and her overprotective parents, she learns sign language and falls in love with a hearing man, only to have him taken from her as World War I breaks out."@en
- "Left profoundly deaf from scarlet fever, Grania O'Neill grows up protected from the hearing world and learning sign language, but her life changes when she falls in love with Jim Lloyd, a hearing man, on the eve of the Great War."
- "Deafening is a novel of remarkable virtuosity and power spanning two continents and the life and loves of a young deaf woman in Canada named Grania O'Neil. As a result of a childhood illness, Grania's is a world without sound, a world bounded by a powerful family love that tries to insulate her from undue suffering. When it becomes clear that Grania can no longer thrive in the world of the hearing, her family sends her to live at the Ontario School for the Deaf where, protected from the unforgiving world she learns sign language and speech. There she meets Jim Lloyd, a hearing man, and the two of them begins to create a whole new world. After they marry, Jim must go to war. Jim and Grania are pulled to the center of cataclysmic events that will alter civilization forever."
- "Deafening is a novel of remarkable virtuosity and power spanning two continents and the life and loves of a young deaf woman in Canada named Grania O'Neil. As a result of a childhood illness, Grania's is a world without sound, a world bounded by a powerful family love that tries to insulate her from undue suffering. When it becomes clear that Grania can no longer thrive in the world of the hearing, her family sends her to live at the Ontario School for the Deaf where, protected from the unforgiving world she learns sign language and speech. There she meets Jim Lloyd, a hearing man, and the two of them begins to create a whole new world. After they marry, Jim must go to war. Jim and Grania are pulled to the center of cataclysmic events that will alter civilization forever."@en
- "Grania is deaf, a victim of scarlet fever at age five in early 1900s Canada. After learning sign language and speech she meets and marries Jim, with whom she develops a special vocabulary. World War I erupts, and they attempt to sustain their love in a world as brutal as it is beautiful."@en