by David Lodge · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141035703
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«Deaf Sentence» is the contemporary fiction and humor novel by David Lodge, published by Penguin UK in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Desmond Bates, a retired linguistics professor, faces growing deafness that fills his life with misunderstandings. His wife thrives in her career, his elderly father rejects his help, and a young woman named Alex makes increasingly baffling requests. Humor and the drama of aging intertwine in this novel.
The novel originally appeared in 2008; this edition was published on July 28, 2009.
Suitable for readers of literary fiction and humor; frequently appears in book club recommendations.
David John Lodge was an English novelist and critic. He was a literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, and some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The latter two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960).
