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Dead languages

Dead languages

by David Shields

1989FictionJewish familiesTeenage boysStutterersSpeech therapy
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The story of a young man who grows up stuttering so badly that he worships words.

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FictionJewish familiesTeenage boysStutterersSpeech therapyStuttering
First published 1989

Author

David Shields

First published

1989

Pages

256

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

4

Language

English

Publisher

Harpercollins

ISBN

9780060972912

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