The author takes the reader on an unsentimental journey through his descent into blindness, only for the reader to discover just how interesting that journey is. His observations are witty, funny, and irreverent, as he takes measure of his life and some of the indignities that blindness has imposed upon him.

Yet, for all that he is blind, he sees the world around him in ways in which many sighted people fail to do. With stick in hand, he moves about the world in a way that most of us would rather not. When he discovered the reason, he would remain in denial for some time, stumbling about in a sighted world without the sight he needed to do so safely.Įventually overcoming his reluctance to admit that, yes, he was going blind, he decided to adopt the use of a cane rather than a guide dog. Some time would go by before he and his family would know what lay behind the author's seeming inability to see what was in front of him. He ignored the signs of his increasing visual challenges and even learned to drive a car, which he drove until it became clear that he was a danger on the road to himself and others. He was about fourteen or so, when a portent of what lay in store for him visually began making itself manifest.

As a teenager, the author developed the degenerative eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa, which slowly robbed him of his sight. This is an engaging memoir of an intelligent, articulate man who happens to be blind. IN THE WORLD OF THE BLIND, THE ONE-EYED MAN IS KING.

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