Crashing through : [large print] a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see / Robert Kurson.

Crashing through : [large print] a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see / Robert Kurson.

By
Kurson, Robert.

Publication Date
2007

Publication Information
New York : Random House Large Print,

Edition
1st large print ed.

Physical Description
466 p. : ill.

Subject Term
Blind -- United States -- Biography.
 
Eye -- Surgery.
 
Blind -- Rehabilitation.
 
Large type books.

Summary
Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s vision. It would allow him to drive, to read, to see his children’s faces. He began to contemplate an astonishing new world: Would music still sound the same? Would sex be different? Would he recognize himself in the mirror? Would his marriage survive? Would he still be Mike May?

Language
English

ISBN
9780739327227


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