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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.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Country	USA
Author	Howard Axelrod
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780807075470
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Beacon Press
Manufacturer	Beacon Press
NumberOfPages	221
PublicationDate	2015-09-22
Publisher	Beacon Press
ReleaseDate	2015-09-22
Studio	Beacon Press

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