Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life

Rating:
Summary: Accurate in essence and design
Review: I was privately pleased to learn that my favorite essayist, Edward Hoagland, became blind--just like I. Well, almost. I am Deaf as well as blind. I was even more delighted to read about how he reacted to the loss of his vision and coped with it. Because of his short life in blindness, his insight became breathtakingly/breathgivingly sharp. He may view his loss of vision as a loss in some degree, but it has given him a gift; a gift in which his writing reaches and caresses a deeper level in essay-writing. I strongly believe that if he becomes exactly like myself in the respect that he is BOTH blind and deaf, he would still capture deafness with grace, wit, and intelligence as he did with blindness.

Any one of his essay collections is wonderful, but Tigers and Ice transcends them all--and this, coming from one of the best essayists ever, makes this quite probably the very best volume of essays ever.

Rating:
Summary: Accurate in essence and design
Review: I was privately pleased to learn that my favorite essayist, Edward Hoagland, became blind--just like I. Well, almost. I am Deaf as well as blind. I was even more delighted to read about how he reacted to the loss of his vision and coped with it. Because of his short life in blindness, his insight became breathtakingly/breathgivingly sharp. He may view his loss of vision as a loss in some degree, but it has given him a gift; a gift in which his writing reaches and caresses a deeper level in essay-writing. I strongly believe that if he becomes exactly like myself in the respect that he is BOTH blind and deaf, he would still capture deafness with grace, wit, and intelligence as he did with blindness.

Any one of his essay collections is wonderful, but Tigers and Ice transcends them all--and this, coming from one of the best essayists ever, makes this quite probably the very best volume of essays ever.