The point of vanishing : a memoir of two years in solitude
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Published
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Audio, [2016].
Format
Audiobook CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Status
Port Angeles - Talking Books
AUDBK 614.599 AXELROD
1 available
AUDBK 614.599 AXELROD
1 available
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Axelrod, Howard, -- 1973-
Axelrod, Howard, -- 1973- -- Homes and haunts -- Vermont.
Eye -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
People with visual disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Self-perception.
Solitude -- Psychological aspects.
Vermont -- Biography.
Vision, Monocular -- Psychological aspects.
Visual perception.
Young men -- United States -- Biography.
Axelrod, Howard, -- 1973- -- Homes and haunts -- Vermont.
Eye -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
People with visual disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Self-perception.
Solitude -- Psychological aspects.
Vermont -- Biography.
Vision, Monocular -- Psychological aspects.
Visual perception.
Young men -- United States -- Biography.
Other Subjects
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Published
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Audio, [2016].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr., 31 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
9781515902959
Notes
General Note
Title from web page.
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by the author.
Description
On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf. Desperate for a sense of orientation he could trust, he retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods, where he lived without a computer or television, and largely without human contact, for two years. He needed to find, away from society's pressures and rush, a sense of meaning that couldn't be changed in an instant.