Ordinary Daylight Portrait of an Artist Going Blind

Name: Ordinary Daylight Portrait of an Artist Going Blind
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ISBN: 9780553381986

ISBN-10: 0553381989

ISBN-13: 9780553381986

Edition: 2003

Authors: Andrew Potok

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Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, he rages at the losses that are eradicating his life as an artist, his sources of pleasure, his competence as a man. He hates himself for becoming blind. But as he will ultimately discover, and as this remarkable memoir recounts, it is not the end of the world. It is the beginning. Ordinary Daylight This the story of Potok’s remarkable odyssey out of despair. He attempts to come to terms with his condition: learning skills for the newly blind, dealing with freakish encounters with the medical…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Andrew Potok is a painter and writer whose two previous books are a memoir, "Ordinary Daylight", and a novel, "My Life with Goya". He lives in Vermont.