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Dead Languages
David Shields
出版
Perennial Library
, 1990
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Jewish
ISBN
0060972912
9780060972912
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jsoLAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
From the moment his mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," Jeremy Zorn's life is framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation. Through family rituals with his word-obsessed parents and sister, failed first love, an ill-fated run for class president, as the only Jewish boy on an otherwise all-black basketball team, all of the passages of Jeremy's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his wildly off-the-mark attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters college and learns his strong-willed mother is dying that he realizes all languages, when used as hiding places for the heart, are dead ones.