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Lädt ... Cockeyed: A Memoir (2006)von Ryan Knighton
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book has been a nice little pleasure.The author is at first going blind (at 17 while trying out his new driver's license) and then resolves into the acknowledgement that he needs a cane to get by and that he needs other people. The writing is great in that it is not sympathetic or mournful. It is realistic, funny and often insightful especailly in regards to language. He writes about how visual our language is - where people say "over there" or "right here" not realizing he has no idea what they mean. He also was lucky enough to have found a good woman . Their story is part of this memoir as well. ( ) Combine equal parts Jim Knipfel and Steven Kuusisto, add a liberal dose of occasionally funny, but often painfully played blind stereotypes, and a dash of Canadian suburbia to taste (careful, it's easy to over-do it). Knighton is "a keen observer of (blind) reality's lesser phenomena." It can be a fine line between charming and annoying when it comes to irreverent humor, but the author steers well-clear of that line, veering only occasionally into truly funny or insightful teritory. I feel like I've read this book too many times before -- the angry/shy/intellectual young man in denial of his vision loss tries to "pass" through blind life's trials , and eventually comes to terms with his blindness. I don’t mean to be unkind, but YAWN. Since I live with a legally blind man (who is still partially sighted) I thought this would be a great source of information from someone other than my other half. I actually found it to be quite lackluster and was disappointed in how he dealt with his blindness. (Pretending that everything is normal is not a good thing.) It wasn't badly written, but I found it quit labourious to read and often wanted to call it quits. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black comedy, Knighton tells the story of his fifteen-year descent into blindness while incidentally revealing the world of the sighted in all its phenomenal peculiarity. Knighton learns to drive while unseeing; has his first significant relationship--with a deaf woman; navigates the punk rock scene and men's washrooms; learns to use a cane; and tries to pass for seeing while teaching English to children in Korea. Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, into couch-shopping at Ikea, into adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a blind man, his writerly self uses his disability to provide a window onto the human condition. His experience of blindness offers unexpected insights into sight and the other senses, culture, identity, language, our fears and fantasies. Cockeyed is not a conventional confessional. Knighton is powerful and irreverent in words and thought and impatient with the preciousness we've come to expect from books on disability. Readers will find it hard to put down this wild ride around their everyday world with a wicked, smart, blind guide at the wheel. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)362.197Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people People with physical illnesses Services to people with specific conditions Surgery; DentistryKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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