Twilight : losing sight, gaining insight
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf :, [1999].
Edition
First edition.
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ix, 130 pages ; 20 cm
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf :, [1999].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130).
Description
In 1992, when Henry Grunwald missed a glass into which he was pouring water, he assumed that he needed new eyeglasses, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But in fact Grunwald was entering the early stages of macular degeneration -- a gradual loss of sight that affects almost 15 million Americans yet remains poorly understood and is, so far, incurable. Now, in Twilight, Grunwald chronicles his experience of disability: the clouding of his sight, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications; the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do to restore sight; his compulsion to understand how the eye works, its evolution, and its symbolic meaning in culture and art. Grunwald gives us an autobiography of the eye -- his visual awakening as a child and young man, and again as an older man who, facing the loss of sight, feels a growing wonder at the most ordinary acts of seeing. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. It is a remarkable meditation.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Grunwald, H. A. (1999). Twilight: losing sight, gaining insight (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf :.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Grunwald, Henry A. 1999. Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Grunwald, Henry A. Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Grunwald, Henry A. Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight First edition., Alfred A. Knopf :, 1999.
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