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Bezig met laden... The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitudedoor Howard Axelrod
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 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). ( ) Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. 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. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. 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. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. 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. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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