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LEADER: 02080cam 2200325Ia 4500
001 ocn656266326
003 OCoLC
005 20160208205127.0
008 100816s2007 nyua 000 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)656266326
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082 04 $a362.41$bKUR
100 1 $aKurson, Robert.
245 10 $aCrashing through :$ba true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see /$cRobert Kurson.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c℗♭2007.
300 $a306 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aThis book is based, in part, on an article written by the author entitled "into the Light", which appeared in Esquire in June 2005.
520 $aWriter Kurson tells the true story of one man's heroic odyssey from blindness into sight. Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May's vision. He began to contemplate an astonishing new world. Would music still sound the same? Would sex be different? Would he still be Mike May? The procedure was filled with risks. Even if it worked, fewer than twenty cases were known worldwide in which a person gained vision after a lifetime of blindness, and each of them suffered desperate consequences. There were countless reasons for May to pass. He could think of only a single reason to go forward: he knew it would change his life.--From publisher description.
600 10 $aMay, Mike,$d1953-
650 0 $aBlind$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aEye$xSurgery$xPatients$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aBlind$xRehabilitation$zUnited States.
994 $aZ0$bPMR
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN PMR - 3 OTHER HOLDINGS