Islay: A Novel

Title Page, Copyright, Quote, Dedication, Frontispiece

ISLAY ISLAY a novel Douglas Bullard Foreword by Cynthia Pettie Gallaudet University Press Washington, DC Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies Gallaudet University Press Washington, DC 20002 http://gupress.gallaudet.edu©2013 by Ruth Bullard All rights reserved. Published 2013 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bullard, Douglas. Islay : a novel / Douglas Bullard ; foreword by Cynthia Pettie. pages cm.—(Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies) ISBN 978-1-56368-563-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 1-56368-563-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-56368-564-4 (e-book)—ISBN 1-56368-564-7 (e-book) 1. Deaf—Fiction. I. Title. PS3552.U4237I85 2013 813'.54—dc23 2013017826 Cover art by Frank Beatty, untitled, 1972. Reprinted courtesy of the Rockport Legion Band in the coastal town of Rockport on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, (http://rockportlegionband.wordpress.com), and the town of Rockport, Massachusetts. Acknowledgments from the first edition (1986): The author wishes to express his thanks to Trent Batson, William and Greta Boland, Terrence J. O’Rourke, Ramon Rodriguez, Frank Portugal, and Barbara Olmert. Special thanks to Ruth and Darry and Dena for their patience and love. This book was made possible in part through a special grant from the Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund of Gallaudet College. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Those who try to interpret mankind through its eyes are in for much strangeness—perplexity —Saul Bellow Dedicated to the memory of Dean Rutherford Bullard and Julia Frances Rutherford Bullard ...