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a little boring - and a little too much "dreaming" but a look at what happens when Sandy loses his sight at age 19 due to a mis-diagnosis. He completes his graduation at Columbia, Oxford, etc. and goes on to become very successful and rich. He has issued a challenge to "end blindness" that carries a 2 million $ prize. Garfunkle was his college roommate who encouraged him to return to college and his helpmate and friend.
I might not have read this memoir if Art Garfunkel wasn't the reader. It turns out that his role as dear friend of the author was hugely significant. The story of a college student who loses his eyesight, and what he then makes of his life, is well written and very interesting. It is always inspiring to hear of triumphs of the human spirit.
Thank you to #Netgalley for this book.
An interesting book (but not depressing) about how one copes with blindness from glaucoma at age 19 when he was in his first year of Columbia University in New York. He never let it rule or lead his life and refused to use a cane or a guide dog. At this time, he met Art Garfukel (as in Simon and Garfunkel) and he became his best friend and went with him everywhere as a guide. He was and probably still is a close friend and almost like a brother. I have to admit that I wanted to read this book for this friendship and he was a prominent person in his life along with his wife Sue who he met in grade school. 60 years later they are still married with children and grandchildren.
He persevered in life his own way and like he said since he had his sight until 19 years old he can imagine what things look like. He's still a strong figure in advanced ways of preventing blindness when this book was published (2020).
As the book went on, it became more business like and I became a little bit bored and the writing became "over my head" in phrases and chapters.
One interesting thing almost at the end of this book, he had an "imaginary" party, where people from past and present where there all having a good time and talking to each other. I guess this was his way of seeing people together that he admired (both professional, friends and family). It was sure different but I enjoyed it.… (mehr)
An interesting book (but not depressing) about how one copes with blindness from glaucoma at age 19 when he was in his first year of Columbia University in New York. He never let it rule or lead his life and refused to use a cane or a guide dog. At this time, he met Art Garfukel (as in Simon and Garfunkel) and he became his best friend and went with him everywhere as a guide. He was and probably still is a close friend and almost like a brother. I have to admit that I wanted to read this book for this friendship and he was a prominent person in his life along with his wife Sue who he met in grade school. 60 years later they are still married with children and grandchildren.
He persevered in life his own way and like he said since he had his sight until 19 years old he can imagine what things look like. He's still a strong figure in advanced ways of preventing blindness when this book was published (2020).
As the book went on, it became more business like and I became a little bit bored and the writing became "over my head" in phrases and chapters.
One interesting thing almost at the end of this book, he had an "imaginary" party, where people from past and present where there all having a good time and talking to each other. I guess this was his way of seeing people together that he admired (both professional, friends and family). It was sure different but I enjoyed it.… (mehr)
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My thanks to Post Hill Press and to Netgalley for an ARC of the book.… (mehr)