Paperback. 'I'm not deaf, but I've always felt more at home in Sign. Both my parents are deaf. Deaf as posts.Deaf as adders, deaf as beetles. And proud as peacocks, Deaf Pride long before there was aword, or a sign, for it. I learnt to speak with my hands from birth; there was no other way ofreaching my parents.'J.J. is back living at home in Adelaide, unemployed and drifting after a messy divorce. Then he isoffered a job teaching Sign to Eliza. His new pupil is smart, sensitive, attractive-and a gorillarecently liberated from a medical research laboratory by animal rights activists.First published in 1995, the third novel by the acclaimed writer Peter Goldsworthy is unique inAustralian literature- a dazzling, moving story about scientific experimentation and ethics,language and love.This edition comes with a new introduction by James Bradley. Adrift after his divorce, J.J. takes a job teaching sign language to a gorilla. Their relationship takes an unexpected turn. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Wish: Text Classics (Paperback)
Publisher: Text Publishing, Melbourne
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1922147036
ISBN 13: 9781922147035
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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"Stylish, imaginative, poignant, and hugely unsettling."The Australian

"Goldsworthy's greatest achievement. . . . Brave, brilliant, as intellectually challenging as it is playful, it is testament to a restless and unpredictable imagination."James Bradley

J.J. is back living at home, unemployed and drifting after a messy divorce. Then he is offered a job teaching Sign to Eliza. His new pupil is smart, sensitive, attractiveand a gorilla recently liberated from a medical research laboratory by animal rights activists.

First published in 1995, the third novel by the acclaimed writer Peter Goldsworthy is unique in Australian literature: a dazzling, moving story about scientific experimentation and ethics, language, and love.

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