[stylist] What you experience verses What you read?

[helene ryles]

John,
I'm afraid I haven't heard of any of the fiction books that you
mentioned? Are any of them in braille?

Helene

On 19/04/2009, John Lee Clark <johnlee at clarktouch.com> wrote:
> Helene:
>
> Allow me to correct you.  There are plenty of deafblind characters in
> fiction--over seventy novels.  Some authors have done an incredible help,
> and the best ones actually interviewed and got to know deafblind people
> first before writing their novels.  One is even the daughter of a deafblind
> mother.
>
> And there are plenty in fantasy.  Have you ever read Catherine Asaro's
> novella Moonglow?  Or John Varley'[s The Persistence of Vision?  Or that
> trilogy by John Marco, with the deafblind girl as talisman?
>
> The best psychological portrayal is probably by Joanne Greenberg in her
> novel Of Such Small Differences.  She depended heavily on Robert J.
> Smithdas, a well known deafblind man, and uses what she learned to good
> effect.
>
> John
>
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