Cockeyed
Autor Ryan Knightonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mai 2007
On
his
18th
birthday,
Ryan
Knighton
was
diagnosed
with
Retinitis
Pigmentosa
(RP),
a
congenital,
progressive
disease
marked
by
night-blindness,
tunnel
vision
and,
eventually,
total
blindness.
In
this
penetrating,
nervy
memoir,
which
ricochets
between
meditation
and
black
comedy,
Knighton
tells
the
story
of
his
fifteen-year
descent
into
blindness
while
incidentally
revealing
the
world
of
the
sighted
in
all
its
phenomenal
peculiarity.
Knighton
learns
to
drive
while
unseeing;
has
his
first
significant
relationship—with
a
deaf
woman;
navigates
the
punk
rock
scene
and
men's
washrooms;
learns
to
use
a
cane;
and
tries
to
pass
for
seeing
while
teaching
English
to
children
in
Korea.
Stumbling
literally
and
emotionally
into
darkness,
into
love,
into
couch-shopping
at
Ikea,
into
adulthood,
and
into
truce
if
not
acceptance
of
his
identity
as
a
blind
man,
his
writerly
self
uses
his
disability
to
provide
a
window
onto
the
human
condition.
His
experience
of
blindness
offers
unexpected
insights
into
sight
and
the
other
senses,
culture,
identity,
language,
our
fears
and
fantasies.
Cockeyed
is
not
a
conventional
confessional.
Knighton
is
powerful
and
irreverent
in
words
and
thought
and
impatient
with
the
preciousness
we've
come
to
expect
from
books
on
disability.
Readers
will
find
it
hard
to
put
down
this
wild
ride
around
their
everyday
world
with
a
wicked,
smart,
blind
guide
at
the
wheel.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781586484408
ISBN-10: 1586484400
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
ISBN-10: 1586484400
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
Notă biografică
Ryan
Knighton
teaches
contemporary
literature
and
creative
writing
at
Capilano
College
in
Vancouver,
British
Columbia,
and
served
for
two
years
as
editor
of
the
literary
magazine
The
Capilano
Review.
The
author
of
a
book
of
poetry
and
co-author
of
a
collection
of
short
fiction,
Knighton
has
also
published
widely
as
a
journalist
and
essayist.
He
has
also
produced,
written
and
performed
radio
monologues
and
documentaries
about
blindness
for
the
CBC.