Adventures in Darkness, Tom Sullivan
Adventures in Darkness, Tom Sullivan
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Adventures in Darkness
Memoirs of an Eleven-Year-Old Blind Boy

Author: Tom Sullivan

Narrator: Tom Sullivan

Abridged: 4 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 01/21/2012

Synopsis

In Adventures in Darkness, Tom Sullivan takes readers through the adventures of his monumental eleventh year. Blind since birth, Tom lived in a challenging world of isolation and special treatment. But he was driven to break out and live as sighted people do. This book is a hair-raising, heart-warming experience that culminates in Tom's reliance upon God to realize his dreams of a "normal" life.

About Tom Sullivan

Tom Sullivan’s life is a testament to courage and challenge, gratitude and service. Born 3 months premature, Tom was given too much oxygen in an incubator that saved his life but cost him his sight. Sullivan’s achievements are remarkable despite the disability. Educated at the Perkins School for the Blind, Providence College, and Harvard, Tom excelled as a student and an athlete. Sullivan’s a member of the Wrestling Hall of Fame, a marathon runner, avid skier, and golfer who routinely shoots in the high 80’s. His career as a singer/songwriter has taken him to concert venues around the world, and his roles as an actor have entertained audiences on TV series like Highway to Heaven, Touched by an Angel, Designing Women, Mork and Mindy, and WKRP in Cincinnati. He also spent six years as a special correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America where his touching stories on people beating the odds became a Wednesday morning staple. He is the author of fourteen books and his biography, If You Could See What I Hear, was made into a highly successful movie in 1982. He notes that being married to his wife, Patty, and having his children, Blythe and Tom, are his greatest treasure and most important achievement. His formula for living is remarkably simple: “Challenge yourself to be the best person possible and in that effort, choose to make a difference in the lives of others.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on July 06, 2020

First of all, memoirs! To read of someone's struggle and how they dealt/deal with it is always interesting. Eleven year old Tom is determined to be a regular kid. I'd forgotten how much freedom there was in the fifties to just be outside playing and roaming the neighborhood without grownups and that......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl L.E. on July 21, 2021

This is an amazing story of a young boy's adventurous summer--one where his only goal was to be "normal." I really liked this. Well written and engaging. Hard to believe at times but truly an amazing and inspiring story.......more

Goodreads review by Kendra on July 18, 2017

What a feel good story about a boy born without sight yet described his life and the summer he was 11 with such beauty! This book will pick you up and remind you that God made you just the way you are for a reason, and with faith, instills in us all the power to do and be anything we truly want to!......more

Goodreads review by Katelyn on September 21, 2018

Overall, I’m totally obsessed with this book. I want the movie. Where’s the movie, Hollywood? Why are studios wasting our time with terrible remakes of great classics when they could be making new movies about stuff we know nothing about. I learned so much about blind people in this book, you guys.......more

Goodreads review by Clint on August 31, 2018

Abridged book CD is a memoir about one special spring and summer in the life of the blind entertainer. Hard to know how much is real, how much is a wee bit of blarney (something he's genetically entitled to since his father was Irish) and how much is compacting a few years into one (a license many a......more

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