{"product_id":"in-this-sign-paperback","title":"In This Sign - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoanne Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSara Novic\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eJoanne Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling modern classic by the author of \u003ci\u003eI Never Promised You a Rose Garden\u003c\/i\u003e about a deaf couple, their hearing child, and the bond they create through sign language, featuring a new introduction by Sara Novic, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eTrue Biz\u003c\/i\u003e, and a new afterword by the author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Astute and wholly authentic . . . This novel isn't only one of deaf hardship, but also one of bravery and great joy. . . . Over the course of it, I was often as gripped . . . as I am while reading a thriller.\" --Sara Novic, from the Introduction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbel and Janice meet at a school for the deaf. Sign language brings them together, enabling them to survive and, indeed, to forge a love too powerful to be broken by the world into which they were born. Spanning forty years, from the late 1920s to the early 1960s, \u003ci\u003eIn This Sign\u003c\/i\u003e follows the lives of Abel, Janice, and their hearing daughter, Margaret, as they contend uneasily with the \"Outside\"--a world designed, often purposely, to be inhospitable to those like them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1970, only a decade after ASL's formal recognition as a language and well before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, \u003ci\u003eIn This Sign\u003c\/i\u003e stands out as a rare, compassionate portrait of the deaf community. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanne Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally renowned, award-winning author of sixteen novels and four collections of short stories, most notably the novel \u003ci\u003eI Never Promised You a Rose Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, which has sold millions of copies and was adapted into a 1977 movie and a 2004 play of the same name. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Greenberg graduated from American University, where she majored in anthropology and English. She became interested in deaf culture through her husband, Albert, who was a vocational rehabilitation counselor for the State of Colorado. Two of her short stories were published in \u003ci\u003eOutcasts and Angels: The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Edna Edith Sayers, and \u003ci\u003eIn This Sign\u003c\/i\u003e was made into an Emmy Award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie titled \u003ci\u003eLove Is Never Silent\u003c\/i\u003e. Greenberg lives near Lookout Mountain, Colorado, where she writes daily, tutors Latin and Hebrew, is active in the Beth Evergreen congregation, has been an adjunct professor of cultural anthropology and fiction writing at the Colorado School of Mines, and has volunteered as an EMT. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Novic\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is the author of the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eTrue Biz\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGirl at War\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the American Library Association's Alex Award and was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation, and is an instructor of Deaf studies and creative writing. She lives in Philadelphia with her family.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47257209766137,"sku":"9780143138099","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/gHeKuo9nCi9780143138099.webp?v=1768743285","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/in-this-sign-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}