To Catch an Angel: Adventures in the World I Cannot See

by Robert W. Russell

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814901948
• ISBN13: 9780814901946
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Vanguard Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

After Shakespeare, most precious volume in my library

When I was 18, I had the pleasure of both reading this book and meeting the author who was a professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennnsylvania. It's the only book I've re-read five times. Russell, a graduate of Yale and Oxford, writes with humor and humanity in lean prose. His story is more than an inspiration; the author shows the reader how to live without allowing disability to interfere. Also highly recommended by Russell: The Island, the story of Russell and his family's adventures living on an island in the St. Lawrence

Rates with "A Seperate Peace" and "The Catcher In The Rye"

This book was one of the most inspiring books of my youth. I would recommend it highly. It is the autobigraphical look at a man blinded in his youth. I recall it as brutally honest, with Mr. Russel giving an open and often times humorous assesment of life after sight. I only wish I could locate a copy to re-read it as an adult