Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing by Polly Barton

Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

Polly Barton

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

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"Witty, exuberant, also melancholy, and crowded with intelligence" (Rivka Galchen), Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not a...

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