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Scattered shadows: a memoir of blindness and vision

By John Howard Griffin

Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Journals and memoirs

Summary

This memoir, published posthumously, focuses on the years between 1945, when the author began to lose his sight due to an injury he received during World War II, and 1957, when he recovered it. It is a decade during which… he virtually lives several lives as he traverses the emotional and physical realms created by blindness. During this time he retreats to a Benedictine Abbey in France, runs a ranch, falls in love, marries, has children and becomes a novelist. c2004.

Title Details

ISBN 9781570755392
Publisher Orbis Books
Copyright Date 2004
Book number 2419118

Audio details for CELA title

Narrator Andrew Laing
Duration 11 hours 30 minutes 44 seconds
Audio producer Royal National Institute of the Blind, 2007.

Scattered shadows: a memoir of blindness and vision

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