by StephenKuusisto (Author)
Stephen Kuusisto, an American, has been almost completely blind since a post-natal operation severely damaged his retinas. In this autobiography he tells of the years of lonely childhood spent behind bottle-lens glasses, the struggle through high school and college, and first love and sex. Derided by classmates, his parents pretending that nothing was wrong, he stumbled through life enraged and mortified. Only when a five-year-old labrador entered his life did he begin to trust, and learn to "walk upright".
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 18 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0571196969
ISBN 13: 9780571196968
Book Overview: Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto is the record of a life of constant frustration, springing from Kuusisto's near-blindness, but it is also an extraordinary literary achievement.