Helen Keller - A Life (Paperback, Univ of Chicago)

The name of Helen Keller is immediately recognizable; 32 years after her death her status as a seminal figure remains undiminished; a pioneering deaf and blind woman who epitomized the human spirit at its most courageous. Yet Keller's golden halo in many ways obscures the real and infinitely more intriguing individual smothered by the legend. Helen Keller was born in 1880 in Alabama and was, until the age of 19 months, an ordinary infant; the sudden loss of both sight and sound plunged her into a nightmarish world from which, aged seven, she was rescued by one Annie Sullivan, a restless Irish girl appointed as her teacher; a woman whose unconventional methods had dramatic impact. Herrmann's comprehensive and eminently readable - if overlong - biography charts the story of both women whose destinies were to be inextricably linked. Committed to exploring every facet of Keller's singular life, Herrmann's achievement lies in the restoration of Keller as a flesh and blood figure, a woman yearning for romantic fulfilment who overcame tremendous obstacles in her quest to lead as normal and as self-determined a life as possible. (Kirkus UK)

This biography of Helen Keller tells the story of the controversial and turbulent relationship between Helen and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. It chronicles Helens doomed love affair, her struggles to earn a living, her triumphs at Radcliffe College and her work as an advocate for the disabled. Helen Keller has been venerated as a saint or damned as a fraud, this book shows her as a beautiful, intelligent, high-strung and passionate woman whose life was transformed not only by her disabilities but also by the people on whose help and friendship she relied.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1999
First published:	December 1999
Authors:	Dorothy Herrmann
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	394
Edition:	Univ of Chicago
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-32763-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
LSN:	0-226-32763-9
Barcode:	9780226327631

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