Discover book depositorys huge selection of georgina kleege books online. Legally blind since the age of eleven, georgina kleege. Kleege is a blind professor of english and author residing in berkeley. Georgina kleege is a lecturer in english at the university of california berkeley. Sight unseen chronicles kleeges gradual decision to drop the pretense in a sometimes frightened or hostile world that views sight as something essential. Kleege explores how all of our culture, language, movies, literature, etc. The only outward sign was that i began to read with the book very close to my eyes. Georgina kleege is a novelist, essayist, and translator.
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