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Author: Mara Faulkner
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: Excelsior Editions
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9781438426679
ISBN 10: 1438426674
Pages: 241
Publication Date: 09 July 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
...[a] beautiful book ... a good read ... thought-provoking. - H-Net Reviews (H-Disability) ...a memoir with many layers ... Faulkner has clearly done extensive research and she expertly unfolds her findings and her confusions [sic]. She doesn't just tell readers about her experience, but invites them to share in making sense of her contemplations and discoveries. While this is not a light read, it is an extremely rewarding one. - Irish America ...this is not merely an autobiography, but a critical chronicle about multiple conceptions of 'blindness.' So, in Going Blind, the reader could also find a piece with ethnographic value-a book in which analysis of social behavior and fieldwork play core roles. - Metapsychology An incredible story that stays with you long after finishing the final page. - Emily Rapp, author of Poster Child: A Memoir This is a remarkable, multidimensional, and accomplished memoir. The author renders the lives of her family members with candor, sensitivity, and integrity. - G. Thomas Couser, author of Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
""...[a] beautiful book ... a good read ... thought-provoking."" - H-Net Reviews (H-Disability) ""...a memoir with many layers ... Faulkner has clearly done extensive research and she expertly unfolds her findings and her confusions [sic]. She doesn't just tell readers about her experience, but invites them to share in making sense of her contemplations and discoveries. While this is not a light read, it is an extremely rewarding one."" - Irish America ""...this is not merely an autobiography, but a critical chronicle about multiple conceptions of 'blindness.' So, in Going Blind, the reader could also find a piece with ethnographic value-a book in which analysis of social behavior and fieldwork play core roles."" - Metapsychology ""An incredible story that stays with you long after finishing the final page."" - Emily Rapp, author of Poster Child: A Memoir ""This is a remarkable, multidimensional, and accomplished memoir. The author renders the lives of her family members with candor, sensitivity, and integrity."" - G. Thomas Couser, author of Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
This is a remarkable, multidimensional, and accomplished memoir. The author renders the lives of her family members with candor, sensitivity, and integrity. -- G. Thomas Couser
Author Information
Mara Faulkner, OSB, is Associate Professor of English at the College of St. Benedict. She is the author of Protest and Possibility in the Writing of Tillie Olsen and Born of Common Hungers: Benedictine Women in Search of Connections.
