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Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening

Hardcover • 2006 • English

Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening

By Stephen Kuusisto

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About the book

Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood or Dorothy Allison's One or Two Things I Know for Sure, Kuusisto's memoir highlights periods of childhood when a writer first becomes aware of his curiosity and imagination. As a boy he listened to Caruso records in his grandmother's...Show more

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ISBN

9780393058925

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening

Format

Hardcover

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