The Stolen Light (Townsend Library Edition)(Abridged) by [Ved Mehta, Beth Johnson]
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The Stolen Light is the real-life story of Ved Mehta, a young man attending college in California in the 1950s. Mehta’s story has been abridged with the author’s approval. The college years are a challenging time in anyone’s life, but Mehta faced particular difficulties. He was an Indian in the United States, a Hindu in a Christian environment, a dark-skinned man surrounded by white people, and he was blind. With compelling honesty and touches of humor, Mehta describes his struggles to live an ordinary college life—dating, riding a bicycle, keeping up with his studies—while dealing with extraordinary obstacles.
Note: This edition has been abridged by Beth Johnson with the approval of the author.
Note: This edition has been abridged by Beth Johnson with the approval of the author.
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Length: 462 pages Word Wise: Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled Age Level: 13 - 18 Grade Level: 7 - 12
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From Publishers Weekly
This sixth volume of Mehta's lively, affecting autobiography covers his experiences at Pomona College, Calif., in the 1950s, when, despite his blindness, he tried to carry on the normal life of an undergraduate: joining a fraternity, bicycling, owning and driving a car and dating some of the most attractive girls on campus. Containing extensive selections from the Indian writer's journal, this lyrical narrative describes the student's problems in finding people to read to him and sponsors to pay his expenses, the suicide of his closest friend and his father's puzzling relationship with a wealthy woman to whom he was "court physician." Toward the end, at Harvard, he completes his first book, Face to Face , and starts his literary career.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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Mehta, a New Yorker writer, presents the sixth volume in an autobiographical series, "Continents of Exile." It describes Mehta's undergraduate years at Pomona College in California and gives a unique perspective on America in the 1950s. This is a lyric narrative of an unusual, talented blind youth from India. He attempted to untangle contrary cultural forces, trying to be accepted without special considerations. As a student, he encountered not only the expected problems--cultural and ethnic--but also financial ones, when he set out to live the life of an ordinary American college student. He succeeded in experiencing fraternity life and dating in the sighted world. His vivid account of his college life makes for a delightful book that will appeal to a variety of readers.
- Samuel T. Huang, Northern Illinois Univ. Libs., DeKalb
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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ASIN : B00LV9PB3K
Publisher : Townsend Press; 1st edition (January 1, 2009)
Publication date : January 1, 2009
Language: : English
File size : 494 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 462 pages
Lending : Not Enabled
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holly moors
5.0 out of 5 stars the most astonishing autobiography I ever read
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2001
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This book is one volume in a series of books that form the autobiography of Ved Mehta. Mehta started with two biographies of his mother and father (Mamaji and Daddyji) and then started to write about his own life. It's an astonishing, deeply moving story of a boy gone blind at a very early age, who goes to America to study, and later to England (Oxford) and Harvard, to become a staff writer for The New Yorker. It's a shame and a disgrace that most of these books are out of print, because I consider them as Great Literature. He not only tells his own life, he also gives you insight into different cultures (starting with the lives of his mother and father, who had a totally different background, then the separation of India and Pakistan, then the difference between East and West, and finally between America and Europe). Warning: If you read one part of his autobiography, you'll want to read them all!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Seeing
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2015
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The seeing world cannot know what the blind experience.
Stolen Light, Mehta's journal/ journey is a helpful, insightful glance into his world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great, fast shipping
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2016
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Byron
5.0 out of 5 stars Bright Light, Day and Night
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2014
Really one of the most beautiful, vividly told memoirs that I have ever read. Anyone who has ever felt like a stranger in a strange land--intimidated, anxious not to look or sound out of place from everyone else, stumbling around, looking for kindred spirits, all the while determined to find their place--will appreciate Mehta's journey. What a splendid story about overcoming adversities, making the best of every situation and, most of all, the humanity we all share.
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