Losing Music

“In his moving memoir, John Cotter anticipates a world without sound . . . a compelling portrait of how deafness isolates people.” — The Washington Post John Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head. Next came partial deafness, then dizziness and vertigo that rendered him unable to walk, work, sleep, or even communicate. At a stage of life when he expected to be emerging fully into adulthood, te