Planet of the Blind: a Memoir

by Stephen Kuusisto

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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".
  • ISBN13 9780571193615
  • Publish Date 27 March 1998
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 January 2010
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 200
  • Language English