Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight
by Henry Grunwald
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Anthropology, Health & Wellness
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- 362.4 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare People with disabilites
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- PN4874 .G79 .A3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Journalism. The periodical press, etc. By region or country
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- English, German
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