Eavesdropping
Book description
Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood or Dorothy Allison's One or Two Things I…
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1 author picked Eavesdropping as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book because it is so beautifully written—lyrical, poetic, vivid, moving, and engaging. I find this book to be a thing of beauty, from sentence to sentence, from page to page. This is the way I write. I would encourage others who love prose stylists to read this book.
From Jeffery's list on blindness.
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