What to look for in winter
Subtitle: a memoir in blindness
By: Candia McWilliam
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N. Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780062094506
Subjects: Blind authors; Scottish Women authors; Authorship; Scottish Authors; Blindness; Biography
Description: In 2006 the acclaimed novelist Candia McWilliam began losing her sight, a gradual onset of blindness that seemed like an assault cruelly tailored for someone whose life consisted of reading and writing.
Notes: "First published in slightly different form in Great Britain in 2010 by Jonathan Cape--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: A paper umbrella; title: Spectacles. Earpiece I ; Lens I ; Bridge ; Lens II ; Earpiece II; title: See/saw. The seen in the thaw ; Saw/see ; Milk money ; The shaman in the basement ; Mine eyes dazzle ; Goosey, goosey gander ; Snowdropped in ; Eyes half-cut ; Two instances of spring ; Silver wadding and the smell of remorse ; Pollen and soot and the family in the cupboard.