Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence

by George Michelsen Foy

Book Overview

Have our noise-soaked lives driven us mad? And is absolute silence an impossible goal--or the one thing that can save us? A lively tale of one man's quest to find the grail of total quiet.--- " I don't know at what point noise became intolerable for me," George Michelsen Foy writes as he recalls standing on a subway platform in Manhattan, hands clamped firmly over his ears, face contorted in pain. But only then does Foy realize how overwhelmed he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416599592
• ISBN13: 9781416599593
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"