Bibliograph

Blind man's bluff, a memoir, James Tate Hill

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Blind man's bluff, a memoir, James Tate Hill

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blind man's bluff

Oclc number

1196176853

Responsibility statement

James Tate Hill

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

"A writer's humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight-and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. After high school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for Cs in his classes, Hill used his remaining blurry peripheral vision to pretend he could still see. Feigning eye contact, memorizing common routes, filling shelves with paperbacks he read via tape cassettes, he organized his life around passing for sighted. A wealth of pop culture knowledge allowed him to steer conversations from what he couldn't see. For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, things would come into focus. At thirty, faced with a stalled writing career, a crumbling marriage, and a growing fear of leaving his apartment, he began to wonder if there was a better way"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- All the Answers -- Land of the Rising Sun -- Real Books -- Pass/Fail -- Make-Believe -- Incredible Shrinking World -- Too Long to Stop Now -- The Definition of Faith -- The D-Word -- Dating Tips for Those Still in -- Denial about Their Disability -- Basketball

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