Book summary

The author, blind from birth, denied his condition for years, until he found himself jobless, alone, and helpless. He then acquired a seeing-eye dog, and changed his life. Now the director of students at a training school for blind people and their dogs, he writes about his experiences, and his new attitude toward his blindness. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.

Media reviews

"[A] gripping and literary narrative, loaded with unusual metaphoric language, the kind that startles in its descriptive power and brings a reader persuasively to an unfamiliar place....[T]he prime achievement of this slim volume is to render for the sighted reader a vivid, potent sense of what it's like not to be able to read it."