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maryoliverdisciple 's review for:
The Blind Contessa's New Machine
by Carey Wallace
Did you have any idea the first typewriter was made by a small-time Italian inventor for his friend (and later lover) who started going blind in her late teens? I certainly had no idea. That is, until I saw a little blurb about it on dictionary.com the other month which piqued my interest. I clicked and read the full article, wondering if possibly someone had written a book about it. Well, someone did! Enter: Carey Wallace and The Blind Contessa's New Machine... Such a pragmatic title for this heartrending, little novel. Though based off real happenings, it is mostly fictitious. I'm not sure how much was true and how much was fiction, though, since there was no informative author's note at the end. I would have greatly appreciated that, but ya win some...
Carey Wallace isn't blind which is incredible. As she described Carolina's impending and then permanent blindness, I felt like I was going blind right along with her. The prose was just lovely, the ending left me feeling metaphysically winded. This shall indubitably be a book I will read again.
Carey Wallace isn't blind which is incredible. As she described Carolina's impending and then permanent blindness, I felt like I was going blind right along with her. The prose was just lovely, the ending left me feeling metaphysically winded. This shall indubitably be a book I will read again.