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Talk Talk - T. C. Boyle

Description: ISBN 0747586195 / Author: T. C. Boyle / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... defiled even, besides that she’s lost her job because the head of her college doesn’t forgive her that she missed class, ... more

... that she was in jail innocently, doesn’t bother him. I’ve pondered upon the fact that the author has made Dana a deaf woman, why did he think of giving her a handicap? A reason may be that she’s had to fight all her life to be taken seriously, she’s experienced that deaf is often taken as dumb - she can talk but as she doesn’t hear herself talking, she can’t control her speech, sometimes she shouts so loud that all heads turn round, and when she’s excited she has problems pronouncing understandably. This identity the...more

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Talk Talk - T. C. Boyle: Road Rage (1273 words)
by - written on 26/08/07 (Very useful, 223 readings)
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Dr. Dana Halter has to go to the dentist‘s and afterwards to the college where she teaches English literature, she’s a bit late and has no time for breakfast, she gulps down some coffee and runs out of the house. Because she’s in a hurry and because she can’t see any cars at the crossroads, she doesn’t stop, she only shifts down. A policeman stops her, checks her papers and from then on nothing is at it was before, her life is turned upside down. The policeman comes back with his pistol drawn, clamps handcuffs over her wrist and takes her to the precinct where her fingerprints are taken, her things taken away and a mug shot is made, but she hears no charges. ... Read the complete review