Notes on blindness : a journey through the dark
Hull, John M.2017
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Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep depression. Soon, he had forgotten what his wife and daughter looked like. In this book, he reveals his profound sense of loss, his altered perceptions of time and space, of waking and sleeping, love and companionship. With astonishing lucidity of thought and no self-pity, he describes the horror of being faceless, and asks what it truly means to be a husband and father. And eventually, he finds a new way of experiencing the world, of seeing the light despite the darkness.
Main title:
Notes on blindness : a journey through the dark / John Hull.
Author:
Hull, John M., authorWellcome Collection, associated with work
Edition:
[New] edition. / introduction by Cathy Rentzenbrink.
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2017.
Collation:
xiii, 221 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Published in association with Wellcome Collection.Previous edition: published as Touching the rock. London : SPCK, 2013.
ISBN:
9781781258590 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.41092362.41B HUL
LC class:
HV1947
Language:
English
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BRN:
1871375
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