Stephen Kuusisto
"The world is a surreal pageant," writes Stephen Kuusisto. "Ahead of me the shapes and colors suggest the sails of Tristan's ship or an elephant's ear floating in air, though in reality it is a middle-aged man in a London Fog rain coat [... more]
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Biography - Kuusisto, Stephen (1955-): An article from: ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 6 Publication Date: 2005-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of ...
 What happened to your leg? he asks me as he's loading the groceries into the trunk of my Volvo. I had polio. What's that? ---from Elegy for a Disease Advance Praise for Elegy for a Disease Anne Finger creates a lyric prose that shimmers like a serious [... more]
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Bridging the Culture Gap: A Practical Guide to ...
* Canning is one of the world's leading cross cultural training companies operating in over 40 countries on four continents * Based on intriguing real-life business situations and packed with case studies, communication style tests, cultural awareness [... more]
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Author: S. Kuusisto Author: O. Lindroos Author: T. Rantio Author: E. Priha Author: Tuh Binding: Digital Format: HTML Publication Date: 2007-04-01 [... more]
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Planet of the Blind
Amazon.com Review: "In the country of the blind," the old adage asserts, "the one-eyed man is king." But in Stephen Kuusisto's superb new memoir, The Planet of the Blind, the world of a one-eyed man is a kingdom of confusion and [... more]
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A Family of Strangers
WE HAVE LOST A GREAT PERSON AND WRITER: Deborah Tall, professor of English and Comparative Literature, died on October 19 at age 55 after two years of resisting inflammatory breast cancer, a rare, aggressive form of the disease. She had lived in Ithaca, [... more]
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Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening
Not as good as the last one: If you're looking for a sequel to the author's famous 1998 memoir PLANET OF THE BLIND, this isn't it, no matter how they try to market it as such, and indeed called it a "memoir" in its subtitle is pretty misleading [... more]
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Poets Against the War
Poetry and Politics: The glaring problem with this collection isn't that these poets are against the war, but with the fact that such sure-fire confidence about any subject (be it war, love, nature, or anything) can rarely deliver interesting poetry. [... more]
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Planet of the Blind
Amazon.com Review: "In the country of the blind," the old adage asserts, "the one-eyed man is king." But in Stephen Kuusisto's superb new memoir, The Planet of the Blind, the world of a one-eyed man is a kingdom of confusion and [... more]
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Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans ...
Fear, rage, courage, discrimination. These are facts of everyday life for many Americans with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made working, traveling, and communicating easier for many individuals. But what recourse do [... more]
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The Island of the White Cow
Living in a vanishing world: In this book, Deborah Tall describes life on Inishbofind, 'Island of the White Cow', a remote island off the coast of western Ireland. An American herself, she meets an Irish writer who gives a lecture at her university. They [... more]
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