The Beauty of Dusk

By Frank Bruni,

Book cover of The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found

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From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight.

One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo…

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1 author picked The Beauty of Dusk as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Frank Bruni has long been one of my favorite writers because his prose is frequently like poetry.

As a fellow author, I love the written word, and Bruno’s ability to put sentences together is flawless. The Beauty of Dusk shares how at fifty-two he lost clarity of sight in one eye and that the possibility that the same thing would happen to his other eye lingered.

The balance of the book helped me, a woman diagnosed with RA at sixty, sharpen my understanding for what happens to our psyches after loss and the difficulty of acceptance. But accept we must,…

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