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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 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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Twilight, Henry A. Grunwald
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1999
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- Titolo
- Twilight
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Henry A. Grunwald
- Editore
- Knopf
- Pubblicato
- 1999
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0375404228
- ISBN13
- 9780375404221
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Storie vere, Biografie, Salute & Medicina, Medicina, Autobiografie e memorie, Salute, Francia, Medicina
- Titolo originale
- Twilight
- Valutazione
- 3,5 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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 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.