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To catch an angel; adventures in the world I cannot see.

Title
To catch an angel; adventures in the world I cannot see.
Author
Russell, Robert, 1924-2011
Publication
New York, Vanguard Press [1962]

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Description
317 pages; 22 cm
Summary
Autobiography of a young man, blinded at the age of five, whose determination led him to the award of Oxford's highest scholastic degree.
Subject
  • Russell, Robert, 1924-2011
  • Russell, Robert, 1924-2011
  • Blindness
  • Blindness
  • Visually Impaired Persons
  • blindness
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Autobiographies
  • Autobiographies.
Note
  • Autobiographical.
Contents
The Valley of the shadow. The descent -- Black crow, white crow -- Catching angels -- Misfits -- Blind man's buff -- Saturday review -- That other world -- Steve -- Boyhood's end -- Memory and desire -- The ascent. Departure and arrival -- Becoming spring -- Pushing streetcars -- Looking for the obvious -- Mary and faith -- Chacun à sa Misère -- Launched -- The wheel turns -- The middle slope. Breaking and entering -- Going abroad -- Undull research -- A better fate -- Forced retreat -- Round trip -- Unquiet possession.
LCCN
62011209
OCLC
  • ocm00264120
  • 264120
  • SCSB-268071
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library