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The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found Audiobook
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From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight.
One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye—forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. He could lose his sight altogether.
In The Beauty of Dusk, Bruni hauntingly recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions.
The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately uplifting examination of the limits that all of us inevitably encounter, the lenses through which we choose to evaluate them and the tools we have for perseverance. Bruni’s world blurred in one sense but sharpened in another. Confronting unexpected hardship, he felt more blessed than ever before. There was vision lost. There was also vision found.
He experienced his first real inklings that the day isn’t forever and that light inexorably fades. The Beauty of Dusk shows readers how he found meaning in that—and how to approach aging and mortality with joy.
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“Frank Bruni narrates his audiobook in a tone of calm wisdom. Bruni…became partially blind after a stroke…Throughout, listeners will find themselves enveloped by Bruni’s hopeful tone.”
— AudioFile
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“The Beauty of Dusk is a positive message, a powerful reminder that with great vulnerability also comes great reward.”
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“A moving memoir that offers perspective, comfort, and hope.”
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“Frank Bruni lost sight in one eye and turned that experience into a life-changing journey of empathy, discovery, and renewal. Once again he has enlightened us all.”
— Tom Brokaw, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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A #1 Amazon bestseller
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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A New York Times Bestseller
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About Frank Bruni
Frank Bruni is the author of five books, including New York Times bestseller Ambling into History, and co-author of two other books. He has been a prominent journalist for more than three decades, including more than twenty-five years at the New York Times, many of them as a nationally renowned op-ed columnist appearing frequently as a television commentator. He was also a White House correspondent for the New York Times, its Rome bureau chief, and, for five years, its chief restaurant critic. In 2021, he became a full professor at Duke University, teaching media-oriented classes in the school of public policy. He continues to write his popular weekly newsletter for the Times and to produce occasional essays as one of the newspaper’s official contributing opinion writers.