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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 21 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 the author. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Axelrod, Howard, 1973-
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Young men -- United States -- Biography.
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People with visual disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
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Eye -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Vision, Monocular -- Psychological aspects.
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Axelrod, Howard, 1973- -- Homes and haunts -- Vermont.
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Solitude -- Psychological aspects.
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Visual perception.
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Self-perception.
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Vermont -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Axelrod, Howard.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781515922957 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1515922952 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11657377 |
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