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Cockeyed (Paperback, New Ed)
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Cockeyed (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
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On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis
Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by
night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In
this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation
and black comedy, Knighton tells the story of his fifteen-year
descent into blindness while incidentally revealing the world of
the sighted in all its phenomenal peculiarity. Knighton learns to
drive while unseeing; has his first significant relationship--with
a deaf woman; navigates the punk rock scene and men's washrooms;
learns to use a cane; and tries to pass for seeing while teaching
English to children in Korea. Stumbling literally and emotionally
into darkness, into love, into couch-shopping at Ikea, into
adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a
blind man, his writerly self uses his disability to provide a
window onto the human condition. His experience of blindness offers
unexpected insights into sight and the other senses, culture,
identity, language, our fears and fantasies. Cockeyed is not a
conventional confessional. Knighton is powerful and irreverent in
words and thought and impatient with the preciousness we've come to
expect from books on disability. Readers will find it hard to put
down this wild ride around their everyday world with a wicked,
smart, blind guide at the wheel.
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