Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening

Innbundet • 2006 • Engelsk

Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening

Av Stephen Kuusisto

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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...Vis mer

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9780393058925

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2006

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Engelsk

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Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening

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