The silent history / Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffett.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 513 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0374534470 (pbk.)
- 9780374534479 (pbk.)
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Main Library | Fiction | Horowitz Eli | Available | 33111007595362 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Both a bold storytelling experiment and a propulsive reading experience, Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett's The Silent History is at once thrilling, timely, and timeless.
A generation of children forced to live without words.
It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own.
The Silent History unfolds in a series of brief testimonials from parents, teachers, friends, doctors, cult leaders, profiteers, and impostors (everyone except, of course, the children themselves), documenting the growth of the so-called silent community into an elusive, enigmatic force in itself--alluring to some, threatening to others.
"An innovative literary thriller about a generation of children born unable to create or comprehend language"-- Provided by publisher.