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Paperback: 304 pages
�diteur: Penguin Books (septembre 2009)
Langue: English
ISBN-10: 0143116053
ISBN-13: 978-0143116059
Product Dimensions: 19,6 x 12,7 x 1,8 cm
Poids d'exp�dition : 205 g

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In British writer Lodge's (Author, Author) modest 13th fictional effort, an elderly man's hearing loss embroils him in a sticky situation with a beautiful, manipulative young woman. Sexagenarian Desmond Bates wears a hearing aid after being diagnosed some 20 years earlier with acquired deafness and consistently misinterprets people's words (which Lodge milks to maximum comic effect). Bates longs for activities after his retirement from teaching applied linguistics, other than contemplating e-mail spam about erectile dysfunction and watching his wife, Winifred, enjoy her success as an interior designer. The novel takes the form of his newly begun daily diary. At a gallery event, Bates mistakenly agrees to help shapely, enigmatic American student Alex Loom with her Ph.D. thesis on suicide notes. It quickly becomes clear that Loom's intentions are anything but academic and her instability shakes not only the sound foundations of Bates's family life but his long-since-stagnant fantasy life as well. Lodge's amiable, deliberate narrative tickles like a feather, but his frequent pauses for lengthy, expository grace notes may not appeal to every reader. (Sept.)
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Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness, aging and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy of human lives. When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the routine of the academic year and has lost his appetite for research. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort, while the rejuvenation of her appearance makes him uneasily conscious of the age gap between them. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on his aged father who stubbornly refuses to leave the house he is patently unable to live in with safety. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss-a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment, leading Desmond into mistakes, misunderstandings and follies. It might be comic for others, but for the deaf person himself, it is no joke. It is his deafness which inadvertently involves Desmond with a young woman whose wayward behaviour threatens to destabilize his life completely. This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 "Deaf and the maiden, a dangerous combination", Sep 21 2008

Par	Michael Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Although this novel ends with a birth and a death, for most of its pages, Deaf Sentence celebrates life, albeit one that is a little disadvantaged. Forced to retire because of his rapidly diminishing hearing, linguistics professor Desmond Bates is not exactly going through a mid-life crisis, but in the preceding months has reached a point in his life where he is subtly questioning everything. Desmond has had a fulfilling career teaching at a local northern University, and he's mostly happily married to his entrepreneurial wife Fred "Winifred" who runs a trendy design store called D�cor. But even as Desmond settles into a middle-aged life, he worries about his increasingly spotty sexual performance. While Fred seems to be getting better with age, blooming into the flower of independence with a stunning new career and new look helped along by her best friend Jacci, Desmond has grown older and deafer, and subject to occasional erectile dysfunction that is exasperated by the advertisements for Viagra that daily always seem to appear in his email box.

It comes as no surprise then that Desmond, somewhat hampered by his hearing loss, falls into predictable daily routine, his communication with those around him becoming difficult at best as his family, friends and colleagues mostly stand by, confused and embarrassed most of the time and ultimately unable to relate to his misunderstandings in the conversation. With sex becoming an object of anxious rather than pleasurable anticipation, "although blindness is tragic, deafness may be comic, "Desmond receives a completely unexpected and completely disturbing call from a young and seductive student by the name of Alex Loom.

An intriguing person but a bit of an enigma. Alex is writing a thesis about suicide notes and wants Desmond to help her out. An unpredictable and frail girl with streaming blonde hair, Alex becomes ever more obsessed with obtaining Desmond's help and approval. Although Desmond makes clear moral distinctions, his life well-ordered and constricted by his marriage to Fred, he does have a darker side. The visits to Alex at her apartment, ostensibly to give her tips about her research, become ever more disturbing, with Desmond coming to the realization that she's either totally irresponsible or mentally unbalanced. Yet she seems to intuit somewhere in Desmond's psyche a fantasy lurking unsuspected and only waiting to be released.

Determined to maintain the status quo, Desmond also has his 89-year-old father, Harry once a big band musician, the responsibility for his dad's welfare lying heavily on him. He regularly travels down to London to visit Harry who lives in the old family home in the older suburb of Brickley. Living alone and dressing like a tramp, Harry lives closed up in his ramshackle house that always seems to be bathed in a sepulchral gloom. Stripped of all of his life enhancing interests, Harry's only one hobby is saving money while observing prices, and economizing on food, clothing and household bills.

While Desmond anguishes over what to do about Harry, Alex becomes his female nemesis and ultimately his arch manipulator. Indeed, Desmond curses the day that he let this unscrupulous young woman "twist him around the little finger of her flattery". To confess his dealings with her would make him look smaller in Fred's eyes even as he becomes convinced that an acknowledgement of Alex's attempted seductions would further weaken the status of his marriage. Alternating between the first and third person, Lodge's tale drifts from the serious to the humorous as Desmond tries to figure out how to get out of the dilemma of Alex. In the process this affable and kindly man ruminates and entertains the reader with his thoughts on ageing, marriage, seduction, isolation and the advantages and disadvantages of deafness. As the uncomfortable memories of Maisie, his first wife who died of cancer, whirls around him, Desmond cannot help but be a little bitter about his deafness. Even his new found new happiness with Fred has not assuaged his share of misfortunes and his sense of the discontent.

Filled with literary illusions and misunderstood irony, this novel ultimately comes across as a type of modern comedy of manners framed around the themes of life's fragility and the ease with which the marks we leave on the surface of the earth are erased. The chapters on linguistics, while obligatory for comprehending the many facets of Desmond`s character can be a bit difficult to digest, but the narrative generally moves along with sparkling dialogue that is full of guileful observations on life. Most notable for displaying for the minute and humorous details of British family life, the novels chief pleasure lies in the familiar - a chaotic Christmas dinner with the entire family present, a new years holiday at a sexy leisure resort, a chaotic dinner in a loud Italian restaurant that is filled with irritating background noise, and ruminations on Desmond's future years of tranquility with Fred, still after all that transpires, the decisive love of his life. Mike Leonard September 08.

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