Go
 

Get this free title from:




Free Stuff in These Categories
Find More Titles by
This Author: John Hull
This Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith
This Publisher: Novel Audio

Notes on Blindness by John Hull

Notes on Blindness

A Journey Through the Dark

by John Hull


Audio



Title Details

Author
Publisher
Running Time
8 Hrs. 43 Min.

Description

"It’s a gift. Not a gift I want, but it is a gift."

Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep depression. Soon, he had forgotten what his wife and daughter looked like.

In Notes on Blindness, John reveals his profound sense of loss, his altered perceptions of time and space, of waking and sleeping, love, and companionship. With astonishing lucidity of thought and no self-pity, he describes the horror of being faceless, and asks what it truly means to be a husband and father. And eventually, he finds a new way of experiencing the world, of seeing the light despite the darkness.

Based on John’s diaries recorded on audio tape, this is a profoundly moving, wise and life-affirming account of one man’s journey into blindness. Notes on Blindness was the basis for a major documentary that was nominated for a BAFTA in 2016.


People Who Liked Notes on Blindness Also Liked These Free Titles:
  James Watt
by Andrew Carnegie

  Eminent Victorians
by Lytton Strachey