Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight

Grunwald, Henry

ISBN 10: 0375404228 / ISBN 13: 9780375404221

Published by Knopf (edition First Edition), 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight
• Publisher: Knopf (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375404228
• ISBN 13: 9780375404221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In 1992, when Henry Grunwald missed a glass into which he was pouring water, he assumed that he needed new eyeglasses, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But in fact Grunwald was entering the early stages of macular degeneration -- a gradual loss of sight that affects almost 15 million Americans yet remains poorly understood and is, so far, incurable. Now, in Twilight, Grunwald chronicles his experience of disability: the clouding of his sight, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications; the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do to restore sight; his compulsion to understand how the eye works, its evolution, and its symbolic meaning in culture and art.

Grunwald gives us an autobiography of the eye -- his visual awakening as a child and young man, and again as an older man who, facing the loss of sight, feels a growing wonder at the most ordinary acts of seeing. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. It is a remarkable meditation.

About the Author

Henry Grunwald was the editor in chief of Time Inc. publications and also served as U.S. ambassador to Austria. He is the author of <b>One Man's America: A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His Country</b>.