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Stephen Kuusisto - Planet of the Blind - 9780571196968 - KLN0017854
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Planet of the Blind

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Description for Planet of the Blind Paperback. Stephen Kuusisto, an American, has been almost completely blind since a post-natal operation severely damaged his retinas. In this autobiography he tells of the years of lonely childhood spent behind bottle-lens glasses, the struggle through high school and college, and first love and sex. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; JFFG; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 150.

A haunting, brilliantly imagined memoir about coming to terms with near-blindness, this is the story of a 'lost man with a speck of something like seeing.' Born prematurely, Stephen Kuusisto has been fractionally sighted since a post-natal operation severely damaged his retinas. Yet he grew up pretending he could see. Planet of the Blind tells his story - the years of a lonely childhood spent behind bottle-lens glasses, the consuming fear of ridicule and derision, the struggle through college that brings him from obesity to anorexia. With his nose pressed into the spine of a book in furious attempts to ... Read more

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571196968
SKU
KLN0017854
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-4

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