I thought it was on the site. I ended up scanning a title that sounds extremely similar several years ago, and at that time, it was on the site. Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Advisory Council www.guidedogs.com The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. -- Vance Havner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louise" <lougou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Bookshare Volunteers" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fw: Recommended Diversions: "Blindness" by Jose Saramago(book review) I'd like to seee this book scanned and submitted to Bookshare. Waynesville Smoky Mountain News, NC Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Recommended Diversions: "Blindness" by Jose Saramago (book review) By Gary Carden This allegorical novel by a Nobel Prize winner has only become available in the United States this year. As the title suggests, the plot deals with a world in which "white blindness" suddenly spreads like a plague. Bewildered governments herd the blind into camps and within a short time, the blind - although helpless - become the majority. Saramago focuses on a single camp and a woman who can see but pretends to be blind so that she can stay with her husband. Inevitably, the existing social order collapses, power struggles emerge, and the blind find themselves dealing with predictable needs: hunger, sex and fear. This novel resonates with themes from other allegorical works - Camus' The Plague, Kafka's The Trial, Golding's The Lord of the Flies, etc. http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/05_05/05_25_05/art_rec_div.html -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.11.11 - Release Date: 5/16/2005 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.15 - Release Date: 5/22/2005