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Things No Longer There is a lovingly crafted collection of personal stories about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight. It is also, more broadly, about invisible landscapes places of the heart that linger long after they have disappeared from the world outside. In these ten brief tales and one novella-length intimate drama, Susan Krieger takes us on a series of adventures in vision, a journey both inward and to various parts of the country. We travel with her as she goes birdwatching before sunrise in the New Mexico desert, learns to walk with a white cane, revisits an old love, returns to a summer camp of her youth, and reflects on the nature of blindness and sight.
Krieger's touching memoir explores the ways that outer landscapes may change and sight may be lost, but inner visions persist, giving meaning, jarring the senses with a very different picture than what appears before the eyes. This book will reward both the general reader and those interested in disability studies, feminist ethnography, and lesbian studies."

Author: William H. Thomas
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 04/04/2005
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.40w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780299228903

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/14/2008 pg. 21
Library Journal 12/15/2008 pg. 143
Choice 10/01/2009

About the Author
William H. Thomas Jr., an independent scholar, received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He lives in O'Fallon, Illinois.