'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.