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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 24 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Fred Sanders. |
| Summary |
In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence. Stephen Kuusisto was born legally blind-but he was also raised in the 1950s and taught to deny his blindness in order to "pass" as sighted. Stephen attended public school, rode a bike, and read books pressed right up against his nose. As an adult, he coped with his limited vision by becoming a professor in a small college town, memorizing routes for all of the places he needed to be. Then, at the age of thirty-eight, he was laid off. With no other job opportunities in his vicinity, he would have to travel to find work. This is how he found himself at Guiding Eyes, paired with a Labrador named Corky. In this vivid and lyrical memoir, Stephen Kuusisto recounts how an incredible partnership with a guide dog changed his life and the heart-stopping, wondrous adventure that began for him in midlife. Profound and deeply moving, this is a spiritual journey, the story of discovering that life with a guide dog is both a method and a state of mind. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Kuusisto, Stephen -- Travel.
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Guide dogs -- Biography.
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Blind -- United States -- Biography.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Sanders, Fred, 1955- narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781508251408 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1508251401 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12632358 |
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