A haunting biography of a young man who was born deaf. He learned difficult handsigns from his deaf parents, attended Gallaudet College for the deaf, travelled abroad, studied mime with Marcel Marceau in France, and organized the successful theater of the deaf.

Presents current knowledge of and experience with disability across a wide variety of places, conditions, and cultures to both the general reader and the specialist.

"The story of Bernard Bragg and his astonishing lifelong achievements in the performing arts."--

"Disability Works offers a cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States"--