Andrew Potok: 4 books
13 Stradomska Street
A Memoir of Exile and Return
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
"Potok is blind but he makes us see not only the pre-World War Two landscape from which he and his family fled, but also how and why and at what price." -Jay Neugeboren, author of "Max Baer and the Star of David" and "Imagining Robert"
"Potok explores the...
Ordinary Daylight
Portrait of an Artist Going Blind
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, he rages at the losses that are eradicating his life as an artist, his sources of pleasure, his competence...
A Matter of Dignity
Changing the World of the Disabled
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From A Matter of Dignity:
I realized that I needed to learn about the legislative and legal aspects of disability as much as I did about our feelings regarding wholeness, beauty and ugliness, about the state called normalcy, about liberating technologies and therapies, about the role of the...
by Andrew Potok
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
The turmoil, terror and betrayal of their escape from Poland at the start of World War II lead us into this tale of hatred and forgiveness between father and son.