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""On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In this memoir, he tells the story of his fifteen-year descent into blindness while incidentally illuminating the wonderful strangeness of our own, sighted world." "Knighton learns to drive while unseeing; has his first significant relationship - with a deaf woman; navigates the punk rock scene and men's washrooms; learns to use a cane; and tries to pass for seeing while teaching English to children in Korea. Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, into adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a blind man, his experience of blindness offers unexpected insights into the senses."--Jacket."
"Memoir about going blind, and growing up."
"This irreverent, tragicomic, politically incorrect, astoundingly articulate memoir about going blind-and growing up--illuminates not just the author's reality, but the reader's."@en
"On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black comedy, Knighton tells the story of his fifteen-year descent into blindness while incidentally revealing the world of the sighted in all its phenomenal peculiarity. Knighton learns to drive while unseeing; has his first significant relationship'with a deaf woman; navigates the punk rock scene and men's washrooms; learns to use a cane; and tries to pass for seeing while teaching English to children in Korea. Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, into couch-shopping at Ikea, into adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a blind man, his writerly self uses his disability to provide a window onto the human condition. His experience of blindness offers unexpected insights into sight and the other senses, culture, identity, language, our fears and fantasies. Cockeyed is not a conventional confessional. Knighton is powerful and irreverent in words and thought and impatient with the preciousness we've come to expect from books on disability. Readers will find it hard to put down this wild ride around their everyday world with a wicked, smart, blind guide at the wheel."@en
"Tells the story of a man who was eighteen when diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that leads to blindness, giving an account of his experience of coming of age and going blind at the same time."
"On his eighteenth birthday Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. Blending mordant wit with intense personal reflection, Ryan tells the story of the loss of his sight. We follow his journey from absolute denial - which lost Ryan his trousers, his girlfriend and, perhaps unsurprisingly, his driving licence - to acceptance of life without vision and reliance upon a cane. This irreverent memoir makes us discover our surroundings afresh, and reminds us that even the most ordinary things have extraordinary and precious qualities."

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"Biography"@en
"Biography"
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"Augenzeuge die Geschichte meiner Erblindung"
"Jedno oko na Maroko"
"Jedno oko na Maroko"@pl
"Mang yan ku ke de xi ha ren sheng"
"Cockeyed"@en
"Augenzeuge - Die Geschichte meiner Erblindung"
"Augenzeuge - die Geschichte meiner Erblindung"
"盲眼酷客的嘻哈人生"
"Cockeyed a memoir"
"Cockeyed a memoir"@en
"Cockeyed : a memoir"@en
"Cockeyed : a memoir"
"Kan bu jian de jing cai : yi wei mang yan xing ren de xiao zhang sheng huo = Cockeyed : a memoir"
"Cockeyed a Memoir"@en
"看不见的精彩 : 一位盲眼型人的嚣张生活 = Cockeyed : a memoir"
"Augenzeuge : die Geschichte meiner Erblindung"

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