The Point of Vanishing A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude (Audible Audio Edition) Howard Axelrod Tantor Audio Books
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On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf.
Desperate for a sense of orientation he could trust, he retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods, where he lived without a computer or television, and largely without human contact, for two years. He needed to find, away from society's pressures and rush, a sense of meaning that couldn't be changed in an instant.
The Point of Vanishing A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude (Audible Audio Edition) Howard Axelrod Tantor Audio Books
A good looking, smart, literary, athletic young kid goes off to Harvard from his elite prep school and returns after four years with one working eye and the second eye an evolving piece of his body that serves no purpose. He still looks the same but his mind has not come to terms with his injury and he is lost in the world. He travels aimlessly, has meaningless sex and falls in love too easily. He then imposes isolation on himself in a bitterly cold, snowbound state..He spends two years convalescing with natural therapy - snow, insects, trees, wooded paths,sunshine and rain - and returns to the world. That is the story. I read this book and when I completed it I realized Howard Axelrod had written a memoir about PTSD, a superb one.Howard Axelrod is a wonderful writer who writes poetic prose. I look forward to his continued success.
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The Point of Vanishing A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude (Audible Audio Edition) Howard Axelrod Tantor Audio Books Reviews
I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into. I normally read non-fiction, business, etc but felt like I wanted something different. Something I could connect to more deeply.
The Power of Vanishing delivered that and more. Howard Axelrod’s journey to his own self-truth is as authentic and pure as it is compelling and accessible. And his remarkable, deft prose allows a reader not only to connect with his innermost thoughts, but also to connect with ones own.
I did admire the writing in that you were compelled to keep going to find out how the whole issue turned out. I'm not sure if I know how it turned out exactly but even so I was satisfied. it was a brave experiment and one that must often be contemplated by many people but the reality is very different from the imagination.
A riveting memoir that gives us a window into Howard Axelrod's journey from dysjunction into wholeness after being accidentally blinded in a pick up basketball game in college. For two years, the natural environment and a solitary life in the woods of Vermont guide him back to wholeness. A revealing story that is well told.
This is a wonderful book. As a woman several decades older than the narrator, I wasn't sure how much I would be able to relate to his experience. But the depth of his understanding of himself and the life about him has a universal quality, aspects of the human experience that anyone can relate to. Highly recommended.
This is a very well-written book by a hard to believe first time published author. Being a native Vermonter and living in a town of less than 250 people, I can say with some authority that Axelrod captures the essence of the Vermont woods and its people. His memoir is honest (sometimes painfully so) and seems to come from the heart. In this book, we learned of the slow transformation of Axelrod in his seclusion. Will a follow up be his transformation back to the "modern" world. Pick this book up; it is a great read.
The book is a memoir about Axelrod's two years of solitude in Vermont, He chooses to go into his exile from life after a traumatic accident, although the book jumps around to other periods in his life. Most of the solitude seems to take place in the winter with lots and lots of snow and only a few mentions of the spring and summer he spends there. I was glad I read it, but found it--and him--a bit too self-involved.
Despite the recent loss of vision in an eye, Howard Axelrod escapes to the solitude of the Vermont woods for two years and learns to see more clearly. Luckily for his readers, he succeeds and shares his new vision skillfully, by combining words and using metaphor with a skill unusual for a first book author.
Alexrod's journey to the woods is not essentially Thereauvian although comparisons are inevitable. Rather, he seeks solitude as an opportunity to self-discover. That's the point. The focus isn't philosophical at the core even though his return to suburbia elicits satirical amusement. Rather, Alerod's ability to look with a powerful sensitivity lets him bring us along on his search.
While finding himself, Axelrod helps us find our own senses again. His writing, wonderfully inventive, helps us see nature, hear sounds like a native in an environment free of social distraction. As his reader, continuously I had a sense of what it would be like to return to my childhood, to see things the way I once did - yet also as an adult. That's no small accomplishment for an author and it means that those who read The Point of Vanishing will surely appreciate the point.
A good looking, smart, literary, athletic young kid goes off to Harvard from his elite prep school and returns after four years with one working eye and the second eye an evolving piece of his body that serves no purpose. He still looks the same but his mind has not come to terms with his injury and he is lost in the world. He travels aimlessly, has meaningless sex and falls in love too easily. He then imposes isolation on himself in a bitterly cold, snowbound state..He spends two years convalescing with natural therapy - snow, insects, trees, wooded paths,sunshine and rain - and returns to the world. That is the story. I read this book and when I completed it I realized Howard Axelrod had written a memoir about PTSD, a superb one.
Howard Axelrod is a wonderful writer who writes poetic prose. I look forward to his continued success.
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