Soundtrack of silence : love, loss, and a playlist for life / Matt Hay with Steve Eubanks.
"As a child, Matt Hay didn't know his hearing wasn't the way everyone else processed sound-and like a lot of kids who do workarounds to fit in, even the school nurse didn't catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But as a prospective college student who couldn't pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay's condition, generated by a tumor, was unavoidable: his hearing was going, and fast. Soundtrack of Silence was his determined compensation for his condition: a typical Midwestern kid growing up in the 1980s, whose life events were pegged to pop music, Hay planned to commit his favorite songs to memory, a mental playbook not only of the bands he loved, but a way to tap his most resonant memories. And the track he needed to cement most clearly? The one he and his new girlfriend Nora-the love of his life-listened to in the car on their first date. Made vivid with references to instantly recognizable songs-from The Eagles to Elton John, Bob Marley to Bing Crosby, U2 to Peter Frampton-Soundtrack of Silence asks readers to run the soundtrack of their own lives through their minds. And, like much of the music it invokes, it's in the end a happy story: Hay does marry the girl of his dreams, complex and cutting-edge surgeries allow him via implant and linked external devices to partially hear, and he's able to share lullaby time with his and Nora's children"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250280220
- ISBN: 1250280222
- Physical Description: 259 pages : photograph ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2024].
- Copyright: ©2023
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Subject: | Hay, Matt, 1973- People with disabilities > United States > Biography. Hearing impaired > United States > Biography. |
Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 7 of 7 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Stanly County Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Albemarle Main Library | B Hay (Text) | 31010000843617 | Adult New Biography | Available | - |