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He wrestles with the anguish of knowing that his daughter has inherited the same disease that is stealing his own eyesight. And then, as he edges ever closer to complete blindness, there comes the day when he recognizes that the exhilaration he once found in the mix of paint and canvas, hand and eye, he has begun to find in words. \u003cbr\u003eBy turns fierce, blunt, sexy, and uproariously funny, Andrew Potok's memoir of his journey is as shatteringly frank as it is triumphant.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49552588079377,"sku":"GOR005717376","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50189012664593,"sku":"CIN0553381989G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51207779025169,"sku":"GOR014199165","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51684718182673,"sku":"CIN0553381989VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0553381989.jpg?v=1750943801"},{"product_id":"ordinary-daylight-book-andrew-potok-9780030298219","title":"Ordinary Daylight","description":"Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. 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And then, as he edges ever closer to complete blindness, there comes the day when he recognizes that the exhilaration he once found in the mix of paint and canvas, hand and eye, he has begun to find in words. \u003cbr\u003eBy turns fierce, blunt, sexy, and uproariously funny, Andrew Potok's memoir of his journey is as shatteringly frank as it is triumphant.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50342537462033,"sku":"CIN0030298210A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0030298210.jpg?v=1750842827"},{"product_id":"matter-of-dignity-book-andrew-potok-9780553381245","title":"A Matter of Dignity","description":"From \u003cb\u003eA Matter of Dignity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI realized that I needed to learn about the legislative and legal aspects of disability as much as I did about our feelings regarding wholeness, beauty and ugliness, about the state called normalcy, about liberating technologies and therapies, about the role of the disabled in history and literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd what could better inform and enlighten me than contact with people who help create access, who elicit change via care, support, teaching, and study as their life's work? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs it turned out, I have learned from them that, in spite of the American addiction to youthfulness, normalcy, virility, activity, and physical beauty, diversity in all its forms provides not only fascination but strength. 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The family made it to American, but Andrew's memories of violence, Jew hatred, and betrayal--including that of his father--erupted into nightmares and eventually formed the backdrop of his rich, though at times turbulent, life as an artist and writer.  When, late in Andrew's life, a Polish lawyer offers to help him reclaim property in Krakow that was wrongfully inherited by a relative, he and his wife revisit Poland, with its still-virulent anti-Semitism. The visit awakens long-dormant memories and provokes deep reflections on the nature of evil. The ongoing lawsuit becomes emblematic of the book's central theme: There can be no closure for survivors of the Holocaust--no justice for either victims or perpetrators, no compensation, and no forgiveness.  Andrew Potok was a successful visual artist until he went blind in his forties. 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