- Paperback: 164 pages
- Publisher: Red Deer Press; 1 edition (Sep 10 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0889951322
- ISBN-13: 978-0889951327
- Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 11.3 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 150 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,623,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Nicole Markotic in Yellow Pages focuses on the early life of Alexander Graham Bell. There is Bell's family (a deaf mother and linguist father, an older brother who dies of TB at 25) and his first love, Marie. And later, there is Thomas, Bell's assistant, and May Hubbard, the deaf daughter of a wealthy Massachusetts businessman who funds Bell's experiments. Bell, like May's father, is an oralist who believes that sign language should not be taught because it segregates the deaf into a world of deaf people, and much of the tension in the story arises from this. May, who becomes Bell's wife, narrates part of the book, and through her eyes we see the human being behind the inventor.
Markotic employs an intense, symbolic style, using voice and language as recurring motifs. Like an extended metaphor in a long poem, they lend unity to the work. Partly fiction, partly biography, partly a commentary on communication, expresses the poem in Bell's story.
Eva Tihanyi (Books in Canada)
Markotic employs an intense, symbolic style, using voice and language as recurring motifs. Like an extended metaphor in a long poem, they lend unity to the work. Partly fiction, partly biography, partly a commentary on communication, expresses the poem in Bell's story.
Eva Tihanyi (Books in Canada)
Product Description
A novel that travels through the life and mind of Alexander Graham Bell the man whose "little contraption" changed the way the world communicates.
Reviews
"These fictions set the stage for revisionist possibilities by cracking the sacred seal of Canadian historiography."
-Border Crossings
"Markotic proves to be a good story-teller, a philosopher, and a poet, a rare but engaging combination."
-University of Toronto Quarterly
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Sexy and Poetic,
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This review is from: Yellow Pages: A Catalogue of Intentions (Paperback)
This book uses love and other stories to tell about the nasty things Alexander Graham Bell has done to deaf education in North America. Everybody gets a voice in this historical version, from Mabel to Watson. It is beautifully written, bringing together many perspectives that speak to each other evocatively. I learned so much about deaf culture, and I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to check out Markotic's poetry!
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Sexy and Poetic,
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This review is from: Yellow Pages: A Catalogue of Intentions (Paperback)
This book uses love and other stories to tell about the nasty things Alexander Graham Bell has done to deaf education in North America. Everybody gets a voice in this historical version, from Mabel to Watson. It is beautifully written, bringing together many perspectives that speak to each other evocatively. I learned so much about deaf culture, and I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to check out Markotic's poetry!
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