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Chargement... The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude (édition 2015)par Howard Axelrod (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude par Howard Axelrod
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A memoir chronicling the search for one's authentic self following a young man's loss of sight. I really liked this book. The writing was accomplished, and the story was one I often identified with (going to the wilderness to find oneself). ( ) Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I always admire people who share their stories via books. Brave people no matter the topic. I enjoyed Howard's journey, and I am happy to have won this from LibraryThing. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. The author loses the sight in one eye as the result of an accident, and he withdraws to a cabin in Vermont for 2 years. It covers the events that lead him to house-sit in Vermont, how he adjusts, the "locals" he encounters, and then his first interaction with his family after 2 years. This took me a while to get into, and I found it somewhat slow, but I enjoyed it overall. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Traumatic event in life leads to finding purpose in life, because it makes you withdraw and find yourself. The one-sentence summary of this book doesn't do it justice, though, because it is so honestly, emotionally conceived and elegantly carried out. There is a poetry to the language that made me care for the writer, and inspired me to experience the difficult emotions in my own life so I too could have greater clarity. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod left his dorm-room to play a pick-up game of basketball. In the skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and severed his optic nerve. Permanently blinded in his right eye, Axelrod returned a week later to the same dorm-room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the smooth veneer of reality had been broken, and where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf. Five years later, heartbroken from a love affair in Italy and still desperate for a sense of orientation he could trust, Axelrod retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods. Miles from the nearest neighbor, at the dead-end of an unmaintained dirt road, he lived without a computer, without a television, and largely without human contact for two years. Whether tending to the woodstove, or snow-shoeing through the trees, he devoted his energies to learning to see again--to paying attention. He needed to find, with society's pressures and rush now removed, what really mattered. He needed to dig down to a sense of meaning that couldn't be changed in an instant. What followed was a strange and beautiful series of sensory adventures, shadowed by a haunting descent into the dangers of solitude. A gorgeous search into the profoundly human questions of perception, time, and identity, The Point of Vanishing announces the arrival of a major new literary voice of the timeless--which is to say, a major new voice for our harried times"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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