The Beauty of Dusk shows readers how he found meaning in that-and how to approach aging and mortality with joy. He experienced his first real inklings that the day isn't forever and that light inexorably fades. Confronting unexpected hardship, he felt more blessed than ever before.
Bruni's world blurred in one sense but sharpened in another. The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately uplifting examination of the limits that all of us inevitably encounter, the lenses through which we choose to evaluate them and the tools we have for perseverance. In The Beauty of Dusk, Bruni hauntingly recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye-forever.
But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience.
He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.įrom New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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