Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/139210to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight Author: Henry Grunwald Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 25, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Genres: Disorders & Diseases Publisher's Summary: In 1992, when Henry Grunwald missed a glass into which he was pouring water, he assumed that he needed new eyeglasses, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But in fact Grunwald was entering the early stages of macular degeneration -- a gradual loss of sight that affects almost 15 million Americans yet remains poorly understood and is, so far, incurable. Now, in Twilight, Grunwald chronicles his experience of disability: the clouding of his sight, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications; the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do to restore sight; his compulsion to understand how the eye works, its evolution, and its symbolic meaning in culture and art. Grunwald gives us an autobiography of the eye -- his visual awakening as a child and young man, and again as an older man who, facing the loss of sight, feels a growing wonder at the most ordinary acts of seeing. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. It is a remarkable meditation.

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