Twilight
losing sight, gaining insight
by Henry A. Grunwald
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"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." "This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight."--BOOK JACKET.
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Twilight: losing sight, gaining insight
2012, Vintage Books
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Twilight: losing sight, gaining insight
1999, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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