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Jim Knipfel
出版
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
, 1999
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Biography & Autobiography / People with Disabilities
Humor / General
Medical / Ophthalmology
Social Science / General
ISBN
0874779499
9780874779493
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fnMsAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
It wasn't until he was in his early twenties that doctors discovered that Jim Knipfel's nearsightedness was the result of an untreatable rare genetic eye disease known as retinitis pigmentosa, which, they said, would leave him blind within a few short years. Furthermore, he was informed, it was an inoperable brain lesion that was causing the suicidal depression and emotional free-for-all he was experiencing. Add to that a drinking problem, a marriage on the rocks, and a lack of any obvious job skills, and you have a young man on the fast track toward oblivion. In an unpredictable, swift-paced, and stirring memoir, Knipfel maintains his absurdist perspective in recalling a life overrun with troubles of every variety. Along the way he introduces us to neurologists, newspaper editors, murderous punk rockers, optometrists, bartenders, petty thieves, genies, social workers, and friends and family who look on as an innocent young man from the Midwest is driven helplessly mad and becomes incurably blind. It is an enthralling confessional about enduring, even laughing, in a world where seemingly nothing goes right, for anyone.