Gifts of Sight

<p>“We look to memoirs for guidance instruction from the lives of others cautionary tales perhaps and if we’re lucky inspiration.  If we also get a clear view of abundant humanity we count it as a bonus.  Gifts of Sight is that kind of rare memoir.  With skill irony toward himself and a clear and moral love of his fellow-man Bruce Shields has written a book that is in part the account of an ‘eye doctor’ in part a meditation on the courage of his patients and in great part a metaphor for Life itself.  Gifts of Sight meditative and Chekhovian is already a classic as it leaves the author’s pen; it should become perceived as one of the great ‘quiet’ American tales in which a concerned and thoughtful doctor addresses the word vision in all its meanings.” <br />—Frank Delaney<br /> New York Times bestselling author of Ireland</p>