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What to look for in winter : a memoir in blindness

What to look for in winter : a memoir in blindness

McWilliam, Candia.
Book 2012

In 2006, the acclaimed novelist Candia McWilliam began losing her sight, a gradual onset of blindness that seemed like an assault cruelly tailored for someone whose life consisted of reading and writing. Propelled to look inward and into the past, McWilliam embarked on a painful personal voyage through a waste of snows punctuated by shards of ice as she attempted to write her life back. What followed was a flow of memory: her childhood in Edinbur...

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Authors, Scottish 20th century Biography
Blindness
McWilliam, Candia
Women authors, Scottish 20th century Biography
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ISBN:
9780062094506
0062094505
Edition:
First U.S. edition
Description:
xvi, 440 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
A paper umbrella
Spectacles. Earpiece I ; Lens I ; Bridge ; Lens II ; Earpiece II
See/saw. The seen in the thaw ; Saw/see ; Milk money ; The shaman in the basement ; Mine eyes dazzle ; Goosey, goosey gander ; Snowdropped in ; Eyes half-cut ; Two instances of spring ; Silver wadding and the smell of remorse ; Pollen and soot and the family in the cupboard
LCCN:
2012462013
Control Number:
2647894
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