Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight

Grunwald, Henry A. (Henry Anatole)

ISBN 10: 0375404228 / ISBN 13: 9780375404221

Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York, NY, 1999

About this Item

New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First edition. 12mo. Dark blue quarter cloth over teal green boards with gilt lettering on spine, cream colored endpapers, 130 pp. The author gives us an autobiography of the eye- his visual awakening as a child and young man, and again as an older man who, facing the loss of sight, feels a growing wonder at the most ordinary acts of seeing. This is a story not merely about losing sight, but about gaining insight. New in a new dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # EM-B0568-16

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight
• Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375404228
• ISBN 13: 9780375404221
• Binding: Quarter Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies and Memoirs

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Synopsis

In 1992, when Henry Grunwald missed a glass into which he was pouring water, he assumed that he needed new eyeglasses, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But in fact Grunwald was entering the early stages of macular degeneration -- a gradual loss of sight that affects almost 15 million Americans yet remains poorly understood and is, so far, incurable. Now, in Twilight, Grunwald chronicles his experience of disability: the clouding of his sight, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications; the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do to restore sight; his compulsion to understand how the eye works, its evolution, and its symbolic meaning in culture and art.

Grunwald gives us an autobiography of the eye -- his visual awakening as a child and young man, and again as an older man who, facing the loss of sight, feels a growing wonder at the most ordinary acts of seeing. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. It is a remarkable meditation.

About the Author

Henry Grunwald was the editor in chief of Time Inc. publications and also served as U.S. ambassador to Austria. He is the author of One Man's America: A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His Country.