Blind man's bluff : a memoir

The Resource Blind man's bluff : a memoir
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Blind man's bluff : a memoir
Title remainder
a memoir
Statement of responsibility
James Tate Hill
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Author
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"A writer's humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight-and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. After high school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for Cs in his classes, Hill used his remaining blurry peripheral vision to pretend he could still see. Feigning eye contact, memorizing common routes, filling shelves with paperbacks he read via tape cassettes, he organized his life around passing for sighted. A wealth of pop culture knowledge allowed him to steer conversations from what he couldn't see. For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, things would come into focus. At thirty, faced with a stalled writing career, a crumbling marriage, and a growing fear of leaving his apartment, he began to wonder if there was a better way"--
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Provided by publisher
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
  • 813/.6
  • B
Index
no index present
LC call number
HV1792.H54
LC item number
A3 2021
Literary form
non fiction

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