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Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World | 
 enlarge | Author: Leah Hager Cohen
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 61534
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0679761659
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.908162
EAN: 9780679761655
ASIN: 0679761659
Publication Date: April 25, 1995
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This portrait of New York's Lafayette School for the Deaf is not just a work of journalism. It is also a memoir, since Leah Hager Cohen grew up on the school's campus and her father is its superintendent. As a hearing person raised among the deaf, Cohen appreciates both the intimate textures of that silent world and the gulf that separates it from our own.
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 Train Go Sorry October 5, 2008
This book is written by a woman who loves language. She uses it with precision and beauty. It is worth reading, even if you have no interest in the deaf community, for the mastery of the writing. If you have an interest in deaf culture, if gives a precise picture of a time and a struggle which is beautifully balanced between a personal and a wider cultural setting.
Deaf Culture from the point of view of Hearing Woman August 6, 2007
I did enjoy this book and gave it to the ASL lab at our local college as I think there are far too few insightful works on Deaf Culture. It was good to see the Lexington school from the authors hearing perspective.
The reason I didn't give it 5 stars was that I felt the characters could have been more roundly developed, more interesting, more real. Living in the Deaf world as opposed to the deaf world or hearing world is very different, perhaps some more feeling for that would have made it more real for me.
Thank you for the book, good job!
A definite must read July 15, 2007
This is a wonderful resource for information on what it is like inside the Deaf community. Well written, informative, and a joy to read.
Not only is it extremely well-written, it covers a multitude of salient issues of Deaf culture December 14, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is marvelous for its accurate insights into Deaf culture. It uses a Deaf residential school setting as the basis for the many subplots so we get an inside look at deaf people - It is an ingenious device. We see the various aspects of Deaf culture from many points of view as Ms. Cohen explores issues through the various characters in the book. All the characters are very interesting and fully drawn. You feel as though you know each one of them when you're done.
I am a hearing man who has been involved in the Deaf community for over 30 years. I teach ASL at a college and have read just about all the books available on Deaf culture. This is the book that I now require for my level two students. It gives so much "inside" information about deaf people. And she does it through the many fascinating lives of each character, most of them deaf, a few hearing.
If you are an ASL student or know a deaf person, you should definitely read this book. If your professor doesn't now about this book yet, tell him or her to read it. Even if you've never met a deaf person I think that you will find this to be a great read. It is breezy yet poignant and you keep turning the page to see what happens next to each person involved.
 Train Go What? July 29, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Train Go Sorry by Leah Hager Cohen gives an interesting view of multiple peoples lives connected to the deaf world. The book reveals several stories that take us down the path the deaf community has taken to get to its present state and how at the same time the deaf culture is on the decline due to technology advancements i.e. cochlear implants and hearing aids.
The title is a little confusing for people who don't know much about the deaf community and ASL. Train go sorry essentially means "you missed the boat". The book tries to portray how the people in the deaf community or those around them have at times have missed the boat throughed failed meetings with family members, relationships, and everyday interactions with the hearing world.
This book at times jumps around and might make it difficult for some to read. However, when you look at it from an ASL lifestyle point of view the book seems to sense. Just as the deaf communities lives are jerky and not in a predicatable order at all times so is this book and I believe it is a reflection of that it is trying to show all the facets of the deaf community in any way possible including the order of the book.
If you would like to learn more about the history of the deaf community and ASL this book is for you. However, I would caution that technology has advanced and time has gone on for the ASL community. If you want to be current on these subjects I suggest doing some research. I enjoyed the book but I probably wouldn't have picked it out to read on my own it wasn't a required reading for a class.
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