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The beauty of dusk [LP] on vision lost and found

"One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one...

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Main Author: Bruni, Frank (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, [2022]
Edition: Large print edition.
Subjects:
Bruni, Frank.
People with visual disabilities > Biography.
Authors, American > 21st century > Biography.
Vision disorders > Psychological aspects.
Autobiographies.
Large print books.
Summary: "One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye--forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. He could lose his sight altogether. In The Beauty of Dusk, Bruni hauntingly recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions. The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately uplifting examination of the limits that all of us inevitably encounter, the lenses through which we choose to evaluate them and the tools we have for perseverance. Bruni's world blurred in one sense, as he experienced his first real inklings that the day isn't forever and that light inexorably fades, but sharpened in another. Confronting unexpected hardship, he felt more blessed than ever before. There was vision lost. There was also vision found"--
Physical Description: 423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9781432899141
1432899147
Author Notes: Frank Bruni has been an op-ed columnist for the New York Times since 2011. He previously worked as the newspaper's Rome bureau chief, Sunday magazine staff writer, one of its White House correspondents, and its chief restaurant critic. He has written several books including Born Round, Ambling into History, and Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania.

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