| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Description |
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| Physical Medium |
large print (16 point) rdafs |
| Series |
Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir |
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Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.
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| Summary |
"One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye--forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. He could lose his sight altogether. In The Beauty of Dusk, Bruni hauntingly recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions. The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately uplifting examination of the limits that all of us inevitably encounter, the lenses through which we choose to evaluate them and the tools we have for perseverance. Bruni's world blurred in one sense, as he experienced his first real inklings that the day isn't forever and that light inexorably fades, but sharpened in another. Confronting unexpected hardship, he felt more blessed than ever before. There was vision lost. There was also vision found"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Bruni, Frank.
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People with visual disabilities -- Biography.
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Authors -- Biography.
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Vision disorders -- Psychological aspects.
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People with visual disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
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Blind -- United States -- Biography.
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Large type books.
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Bruni, Frank. (OCoLC)fst01512092
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Blind. (OCoLC)fst00834291
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People with visual disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057466
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781432899141 (large print ; hardcover) |
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1432899147 (large print ; hardcover) |
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