The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude - Softcover

Howard Axelrod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807075469 ISBN 13: 9780807075463

Publisher: Beacon Press, 2015

Synopsis

Into the Wild meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a lyrical memoir of a life changed in an instant and of the perilous beauty of searching for identity in solitude
 
On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy s finger hooked behind Axelrod s eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf. Desperate for a sense of orientation he could trust, he retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods, where he lived without a computer or television, and largely without human contact, for two years. He needed to find, away from society s pressures and rush, a sense of meaning that couldn t be changed in an instant.

About this title

About the Author

Howard Axelrod s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Shambhala Sun, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. He currently teaches at Grub Street in Boston, where he lives. The Point of Vanishing is his first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807075469
• ISBN 13: 9780807075463
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224