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Shall I Say a Kiss?: The Courtship Letters of a Deaf Couple, 1936-1938
by Davis, Lennard | HC | VeryGood
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781563680762
- Book Title
- Shall I Say a Kiss? : the Courtship Letters of a Deaf Couple, 1936-1938
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- People with Disabilities, Personal Memoirs, General
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
ISBN-10
1563680769
ISBN-13
9781563680762
eBay Product ID (ePID)
769381
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shall I Say a Kiss? : the Courtship Letters of a Deaf Couple, 1936-1938
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
People with Disabilities, Personal Memoirs, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
98-051831
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
362.4/2/00922 B
Synopsis
Upon the death of his father Morris at age 82, Lennard Davis found among his effects a trove of letters, kept in careful chronological order, that dated from 1936. The letters ended in 1938, when Eva Weintrobe came to America to marry Morris, and they provide the core of Shall I Say A Kiss? , their courtship by correspondence. In his framing comments, Davis speculates that his parents met perhaps four or five times before they wed, a fact that heightens the importance of these letters to their fate. Davis illustrates vast contrasts between Morris and Eva, both to each other (Morris was 38; Eva was 26), and to themselves in later life as witnessed by their son. Where Davis saw his father brimming with confidence and a sense of superior intellect while his mother acted as the reserved, dutiful wife, he was startled to learn through their letters that she could be the shrewd questioning correspondent even as his father wrote as an unsure, imploring suitor. Shall I Say A Kiss? opens a window into the lives of two working-class, Jewish, British, Deaf people in the 1930s. This striking book reveals a consistent, journal-like account of the "lived" experience of Deaf people during the tumultuous times just prior to World War II. Because the correspondence is mainly composed of Eva's letters, the focus sharpens even further as a record of the life and opinions of a young, working-class, Deaf woman about to embark upon marriage and life in a new country. The challenges she faced, including de facto racial barriers for both deaf and Jewish immigrants, and the prospect of uniting with a man she knew mostly through his letters alone, make for a compelling and emotional trip through her life. Shall I Say A Kiss? serves as a singular social document and also as an engaging and often moving narrative that will win audiences among academics and romantics alike.
LC Classification Number
HV2534.D38A3 1999
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