Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with
failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking
ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of
this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its
thorough navigation of the world of blindness -- a world in which
stairs are safe and snow is frightening, where food and sex lose
much of their allure and playing with one's child may be
agonizingly difficult. As he describes the ways in which blindness
shapes his experience of his wife and children, of strangers
helpful and hostile, and, above all, of his God, Hull becomes a
witness in the highest, true sense. Touching the Rock is a book
that will instruct, move, and profoundly transform anyone who reads
it.
"John Hull goes a long way toward taking us with him through his
descent into total blindness...He lets us see with no trace of
self-pity or self-praise how blindness has become far him a genuine
acquisition, an unforeseeably rich gift that has made of him what
so few of us are: excellent watchers and hearers of the
world...triumphant in the teeth of ruin". -- Reynolds Price
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