Introversion Has Its Limits
Adam Mars-Jones: ‘Essayism’, 8 March 2018
Sound: Stories of Hearing Lost and Found
by Bella Bathurst.
Wellcome, 224 pp., £8.99, February 2018,978 1 78125 776 0 Show More
by Bella Bathurst.
Wellcome, 224 pp., £8.99, February 2018,
Proxies: A Memoir in Twenty-Four Attempts
by Brian Blanchfield.
Picador, 181 pp., £9.99, August 2017,978 1 5098 4785 3 Show More
by Brian Blanchfield.
Picador, 181 pp., £9.99, August 2017,
“... free to leave the house and to go for a walk, with the author in tow. That’s what happens in Bella Bathurst’s Sound, which starts and ends with sections of memoir that describe her own experience of hearing loss, and uses the intervening chapters to explore issues related to deafness both journalistically and essayistically. This structure ... ”
