Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. Signed and dedicated by the author, to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, on a label, on the half title page. Very faint marks on the page block. One or two closing pages are slightly nicked and creased on the upper edges. The binding is sound; all text is clear. CM.

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Titel

Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight

Verlag

Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0375404228

ISBN-13

9780375404221

Einband

Hardcover

Zustand

Very Good

Signiert

Signed and Dedicated By Author

Buchtyp

Used

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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 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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Henry Grunwald was the editor in chief of Time Inc. publications and also served as U.S. ambassador to Austria. He is the author of <b>One Man's America: A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His Country</b>.

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