Título: What Is Visible: A Novel
Autor: Kimberly Elkins
Sinopse: A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller.
At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins Institute in Boston to determine if a child so terribly afflicted could be taught. At age twelve, Charles Dickens declared her his prime interest for visiting America. And by age twenty, she was considered the nineteenth century's second most famous woman, having mastered language and charmed the world with her brilliance. Not since The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has a book proven so profoundly moving in illuminating the challenges of living in a completely unique inner world.
With Laura—by turns mischievous, temperamental, and witty—as the book's primary narrator, the fascinating kaleidoscope of characters includes the founder of Perkins Institute, Samuel Gridley Howe, with whom she was in love; his wife, the glamorous Julia Ward Howe, a renowned writer, abolitionist, and suffragist; Laura's beloved teacher, who married a missionary and died insane from syphilis; an Irish orphan with whom Laura had a tumultuous affair; Annie Sullivan; and even the young Helen Keller.
Deeply enthralling and rich with lyricism, What is Visible chronicles the breathtaking experiment that Laura Bridgman embodied and its links to the great social, philosophical, theological, and educational changes rocking Victorian America. Given Laura's worldwide fame in the nineteenth century, it is astonishing that she has been virtually erased from history. What is Visible will set the record straight.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “What Is Visible: A Novel”, de Kimberly Elkins, publicado pela editora Twelve, em 2015 e com 336 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Twelve
Páginas: 336
Ano: 2015-06-16
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1455528951
ISBN13: 9781455528950
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Twelve oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que transitam entre o relato pessoal e a análise social, frequentemente explorando temas como identidade, poder e pertencimento. O catálogo reúne obras que combinam histórias de transformação individual, como jornadas de autodescoberta e conflitos familiares, com investigações aprofundadas sobre acontecimentos políticos e culturais contemporâneos. Há uma atenção constante à complexidade humana, seja em memórias políticas, biografias esportivas ou relatos jornalísticos, sempre com um tom que varia do íntimo ao crítico, sem perder a clareza e o ritmo envolvente.
