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Posted by Ali-G (Ottawa, Canada) on 6 January 2007 in Lifestyle & Culture.
First book of the year - Cockeyed (Ryan Knighton)
"On his eighteenth birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a congenital disease marked by a progressive pathology of night-blindness, tunnel vision, and, eventually, total blindness. In 1995 he completed a BA (Hons) in English at Simon Fraser University and then, after teaching in South Korea for a year, began his MA, again at SFU, completing it in 1998. That same year, at the age of twenty-five, he was hired by Capilano College's English Department to teach contemporary literature, pop-culture, rhetoric, and creative writing. Knighton has also traveled across Canada to give public readings and lectures. Ryan Knighton is in the last stage before total blindness."
Very good read- i'm sure Mr. Knighton would appreciate the irony if i said this book gives great insight into the thinking and changes that a person going blind undergoes.
Then again he might be horrified by my grammar.
