Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness - Hardcover

Hull, John M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679401687 ISBN 13: 9780679401681

Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1991

Synopsis

An intensely personal exploration of blindness reveals a world of sound and echo, of people without faces, of the strange relationship between waking and dreaming, and of new perceptions of nature, personality, and human experience

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Review:

'John Hull goes a long way toward taking us with him through his descent into total blindness . . . He lets us see with no trace of self-pity or self-praise how blindness has become for him a genuine acquisition, an unforeseeably rich gift that has made of him what so few of us are: excellent watchers and hearers of the world . . . triumphant in the teeth of ruin.' --Reynolds Price, American novelist (1933 2011)

'The observation is minute, and equally it is profound: everything is pondered, explored, to its limit - every experience turned this way and that until it yields its full harvest of meanings. The incisiveness of Hull's observation, the beauty of his language, make this book poetry; the depth of his reflection turns it into phenomenology or philosophy.' --Oliver Sacks, neurologist and bestselling author, from the Foreword

Book Description:

The inspiration for the award-winning film, NOTES ON BLINDNESS, in cinemas across the UK from 1 July 2016

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679401687
• ISBN 13: 9780679401681
• Binding: Hardcover