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The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude

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The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude

Named one of the best books of the year by Slate, Chicago Tribune, Entropy Magazine, and named one of the top 10 memoirs by Library Journal

Into the WildÂ meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manâ‚¬"a lyrical memoir of a life changed in an instant and of the perilous beauty of searching for identity in solitude
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On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boyâ‚¬s finger hooked behind Axelrodâ‚¬s eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf. Desperate for a sense of orientation he could trust, he retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods, where he lived without a computer or television, and largely without human contact, for two years. He needed to find, away from societyâ‚¬s pressures and rush, a sense of meaning that couldnâ‚¬t be changed in an instant.
Country USA
Brand Beacon Press
Manufacturer Beacon Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0807075469_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2015-09-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780807075463

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