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Author Hill, James Tate, author.

Title Blind man's bluff : a memoir / James Tate Hill.

Publication Info. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 HILL    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY HILL    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B HILL J.    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B HILL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B HILL, JAMES    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-HILL HIL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-HILL HIL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B HILL, J.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B HILL    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B HILL    DUE 09-11-23 Billed

Edition First edition.
Description 234 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Prologue -- All the Answers -- Land of the Rising Sun -- Real Books -- Pass/Fail -- Make-Believe -- Incredible Shrinking World -- Too Long to Stop Now -- The Definition of Faith -- The D-Word -- Dating Tips for Those Still in -- Denial about Their Disability -- Basketball.
Summary "A writer's humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight-and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. After high school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for Cs in his classes, Hill used his remaining blurry peripheral vision to pretend he could still see. Feigning eye contact, memorizing common routes, filling shelves with paperbacks he read via tape cassettes, he organized his life around passing for sighted. A wealth of pop culture knowledge allowed him to steer conversations from what he couldn't see. For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, things would come into focus. At thirty, faced with a stalled writing career, a crumbling marriage, and a growing fear of leaving his apartment, he began to wonder if there was a better way"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Hill, James Tate.
Blind -- United States -- Biography.
Blind authors -- United States -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Deception.
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Blind. (OCoLC)fst00834291
Blind authors. (OCoLC)fst00834370
Deception. (OCoLC)fst00888968
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780393867176 (hardcover)
039386717X (hardcover)
9780393867183 (epub)
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