FA: ANDRE POTOK-PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST GOING BLIND

ANDRE POTOK-PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST GOING BLIND
Potok, Andrew: ORDINARY DAYLIGHT: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST GOING BLIND

New York: Holt Rinehart, 1980. First edition.



>From the Back Cover
"Extraordinary . . . a beautiful book."
--Chicago Tribune Book World

"More absorbing than any novel, the story is also more impressive because it
is true. . . . Highly recommended."
--Library Journal

"Elegant . . . alive with carefully observed detail . . . this book's
excellence is proof as we read it that Potok's story has a happy ending."
--The Washington Post

"[Potok] learned to see with words, and judging by Ordinary Daylight, this
has saved him. If you read the book, it will save you, too, in ways you didn
't know you needed."
--The New York Times


Book Description
Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter.
Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye
disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, he rages at the losses
that are eradicating his life as an artist, his sources of pleasure, his
competence as a man. He hates himself for becoming blind. But as he will
ultimately discover, and as this remarkable memoir recounts, it is not the
end of the world. It is the beginning.

This the story of Potok's remarkable odyssey out of despair. He attempts to
come to terms with his condition: learning skills for the newly blind,
dealing with freakish encounters with the medical establishment, going to
London for a promised cure through a bizarre and painful "therapy" of bee
stings. He wrestles with the anguish of knowing that his daughter has
inherited the same disease that is stealing his own eyesight. And then, as
he edges ever closer to complete blindness, there comes the day when he
recognizes that the exhilaration he once found in the mix of paint and
canvas, hand and eye, he has begun to find in words.

By turns fierce, blunt, sexy, and uproariously funny, Andrew Potok's memoir
of his journey is as shatteringly frank as it is triumphant.



Very Good with Very Good dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped, boards lightly
sunned. Page edges soiled. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn and soiled on rear
panel.s

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