A unique and moving account of one man's struggle to come to terms with losing his sight - film adaptation received 3 BAFTA nominations including Best British Film
John Hull was Professor of Religious Education at the University of Birmingham. He died in July 2015.
"There is wisdom on every page... a gift to the whole of humanity"
-- Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of 'The Last Act of Love'
The incisiveness of Hull's observation, the beauty of his language,
make this book poetry; the depth of his reflection turns it into
phenomenology or philosophy -- Oliver Sacks
He lets us see with no trace of self-pity or self-praise how
blindness has become for him a genuine acquisition, an
unforeseeably rich gift that has made of him what so few of us are:
excellent watchers and hearers of the world ... triumphant in the
teeth of ruin. -- Reynolds Price
Beautiful. -- Melanie Reid * The Times *
This is a courageous book about the ability of the human mind and
soul to reorganize around changed sources of information. In losing
his sight, John Hull learned how much he had loved seeing, and how
much he could love other means of interacting with the world. His
poignant and wise description of his rebirth as a blind man is
thrilling and disturbing, written in incandescent prose, and
demonstrates an exhilarating passion for life itself. -- Andrew
Solomon
Full of the richness of our experience on the planet ... Hull
records his daunting and dark, enlightening and different world
with an awareness that leaves you reeling - and the better for it.
-- Kerry Fowler * Sainsburys magazine *
Praise for the documentary: 'Articulate, eloquent and soul
searching -- Mark Kermode
I am haunted by his voice and how he uses his eloquence to convey
what it means to go blind as well as the miraculous adaptations
that can be made -- Lavinia Greenlaw
This is a courageous book about the ability of the human mind and
soul to reorganize around changed sources of information. In losing
his sight, John Hull learned how much he had loved seeing, and how
much he could love other means of interacting with the world. His
poignant and wise description of his rebirth as a blind man,
written in incandescent prose, is thrilling and disturbing and
demonstrates an exhilarating passion for life itself. -- Andrew
Solomon
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