Things No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision by Susan Krieger

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Krieger (feminist studies, Stanford U.) follows in the long tradition of writing a memoir while going blind for the edification of those who are not. As she gives a detailed description of her symptoms and how they relate to her division of the world into the "outer" and the "inner," she finds that those people and places in the "outer world" to whom she has returned for one last look have for some reason changed in spite of her need for them to remain the way she remembered them long ago. Like many who will remain intensely visual throughout the progression of blindness, Krieger adopts the long-standing notion that blindness imposes a special "inner vision" that will enlighten her for the rest of her life. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR