title: Invisible: A Memoir
author:  Hugues de Montalembert 
description: Blinded in a senseless attack in his New York home in 1978, de Montalembert, then a filmmaker and painter, was violently forced out of his intensely visual world. In this raw memoir, more a brainstorming session than a narrative, he approaches his new life with stunning directness, navigating the environs of Manhattan and, not much later, Bali and Greenland, with precocious new confidence and ability. He's also painfully honest about the affects of his blindness, refusing the comfort of standard tropes about spirituality but finding wonder in the kindness of absolute strangers, isolation from those closest to him, and other un-thought-of moments of triumph and despair stemming from the way his condition affects his closest relationships. A French-born artist, de Montalembert will draw inevitable comparisons to Jean-Dominique Bauby (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), and de Montalembert's effort is certainly a more challenging read, stylistically: 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. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Acknowledgments
  
  
    
  
  
  Thanks to my wife Christina, who helps me
  
  
  keep writing around our crazy family schedule.
  
  
  I appreciate everyone who has helped with
  
  
  this book. Thanks to beta readers Robert Duperre, and Rhiannon
  
  
  Frater. Thanks to my proofreaders Thelia Kelly and Barb Ferrante.
  
  
  Thanks to Claudia from PhatPuppy Art, who created the great cover
  
  
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