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Synopsis
In 1983 John Hull, a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, was forced to acknowledge his fading vision had completely overwhelmed him. From this point on, he says, "I began to take up residence in another world."
This book is a unique exploration of the distant and infinitely strange world of blindness. John Hull writes of odd sounds and echoes, of faceless people, the curious relationship between waking and dreaming and of a new perception of nature and human personality. Every experience, from lovemaking to buying drinks, is transformed in this other world.
An exploration of the world of blindness - of people without faces, strange sounds, the new feel of eating, playing with children, everything. Blindness introduced the author to a new dimension and a different perception of nature and the human personality.
This is his story of that experience.
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Review
In 1983, Hull, a university lecturer who had lived with sight problems from the age of 13, found that the dark discs he had fought for 36 years had finally overwhelmed his sight. The spiritual and emotional reactions to his vision loss form the basis of this poignant memoir, and the many questions he asks contribute to his eventual acceptance of his fate. A richly textured dream life adds to his exploration of the other world of blindness, and the understanding and meaning he finds coalesce into a powerful work. --Library Journal
This unsentimental memoir of the experiences of a newly blind person provides many insights about the quest for the unified life. --Publishers Weekly
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 (1933-2015)
Book Description
The inspiration for the award-winning film, NOTES ON BLINDNESS, in cinemas across the UK from 1 July 2016
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