
Scattered shadows: a memoir of blindness and vision
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.