"This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought. Sacks [is] one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time." –
Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Fascinating and richly rewarding. Sacks is a profoundly wise observer." –
The Plain Dealer "One cannot read more than a few pages of Sacks without seeing something in a new way. His breadth of understanding and expression seems limitless." –
Kansas City Star "A remarkable book, penetrating, subtle, persuasive. [It] will likely become a classic." –
St. Louis Post-Dispatch