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Published Jan 2010
144 pages
Genre: Biography/Memoir
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"DeMontalembert deftly shows how his other senses came to the fore after he lost his sight, but his spiritual awakening feels unconvincing." - Kirkus Reviews
A spare, poetic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence, leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be seen.
".. broken, brief, at times like a prose poem. It depends on the reader whether this approach makes for a cumulative impact, or just gets tiring. Still, de Montalembert vital, determined voice is worth attending." - Publishers Weekly
"When Hugues de Montalembert was blinded in a sudden, terrible act of violence, he set out to see the world. In luminous and sensual language, he recounts his journeys through Indonesia, the Himalayas, and Greenland. But he also charts a journey into the deepest places of the heart, where fear and courage, love and rage create spectacular vistas most of us will never see. As much poem as memoir, Invisible is like a streak of lightning against an ink-black sky." - Geraldine Brooks, bestselling author of March and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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Born in France, Hugues de Montalembert is a painter and photographer who was blinded during a violent assault while living in New York in 1978. He is the author of one previous book in English, Eclipse (1985). His story was also the basis of the acclaimed documentary film Black Sun (2007). He currently lives in Paris.
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