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THE BEAUTY OF DUSK
On Vision Lost and Found
From Frank Bruni, Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times and three-time bestselling author, The Beauty of Dusk is a poignant, life-affirming memoir of resilience in the face of encroaching blindness - with a powerful message for all who seek to live each day meaningfully in the time left to us.
In 2018, the New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Bruni woke with a blurry smudge in his right eye. It wasn't gunk. It wasn't a lack of caffeine. Overnight a rare stroke had cut off blood to his optic nerve, rendering him functionally blind in that eye - permanently. The doctor who diagnosed him indicated that there was a good chance that the same could happen in his left eye. While learning to navigate his unfamiliar new reality, Bruni embarked on a reappraisal of his life and a profound contemplation of affliction and aging.
The Beauty of Dusk uses Bruni's own medical odyssey and the travails of others to explore what other people have gained from bad medical diagnoses, accidents, and innate limitations: not just people who have lost eyesight, but people who have lost motor control, or limbs, or other capacities the rest of us take for granted. The book is a beautiful examination of what one can do despite limitation, and the extraordinary capacities in all of us to persevere after loss.
Frank Bruni has been a prominent journalist for more than three decades, including more than 25 years at the New York Times, the last 10 of them as a nationally renowned Op-Ed columnist who appeared frequently as a television commentator. He was also a White House correspondent for the Times, its Rome bureau chief and, for five years, its chief restaurant critic. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers. In July 2021, he became a full professor at Duke University, teaching media-oriented classes in the school of public policy. He continues to write his popular weekly newsletter for the Times, which has more than 200,000 subscribers, and to produce occasional essays as one of the newspaper's official Contribution Opinion Writers.
The Beauty of Dusk uses Bruni's own medical odyssey and the travails of others to explore what other people have gained from bad medical diagnoses, accidents, and innate limitations: not just people who have lost eyesight, but people who have lost motor control, or limbs, or other capacities the rest of us take for granted. The book is a beautiful examination of what one can do despite limitation, and the extraordinary capacities in all of us to persevere after loss.
Frank Bruni has been a prominent journalist for more than three decades, including more than 25 years at the New York Times, the last 10 of them as a nationally renowned Op-Ed columnist who appeared frequently as a television commentator. He was also a White House correspondent for the Times, its Rome bureau chief and, for five years, its chief restaurant critic. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers. In July 2021, he became a full professor at Duke University, teaching media-oriented classes in the school of public policy. He continues to write his popular weekly newsletter for the Times, which has more than 200,000 subscribers, and to produce occasional essays as one of the newspaper's official Contribution Opinion Writers.
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Published 2022-03-01 by Avid Reader Press |