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Sat 09 Sep 2010Blind devotion to a writing life
MEMOIR:What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness, By Candia McWilliam, Jonathan Cape 480pp. £ 18.99
A SUCCINCT DESCRIPTION of what a reader might expect from this unusual memoir is perhaps best provided by the author herself when she notes that she emptied her life to the extent that she made of it a cell. “I haven’t made a charming minimalist environment for the contemplation of the good, I have fixed up a metal cave, I think I did it with drink first and with a good disinfecting blast of high-pressure shame after that. Then I went blind.”
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