Eavesdropping A Life by Ear

Name: Eavesdropping A Life by Ear
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ISBN: 9780393058925

ISBN-10: 0393058921

ISBN-13: 9780393058925

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephen Kuusisto

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A memoir of blindness and listening rendered with a poet's delight by the author of the acclaimed Planet of the Blind. Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood or Dorothy Allison's One or Two Things I Know for Sure, Kuusisto's memoir highlights periods of childhood when a writer first becomes aware of his curiosity and imagination. As a boy he listened to Caruso records in his grandmother's attic and spent hours in the New Hampshire woods learning the calls of birds.…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English