Running Toward the Light: The George Mendoza Story

by William J. Buchanan and William Buchanan

At the age of fifteen, George Mendoza lost all of his central vision and 80 percent of his peripheral vision. After months of research, Mendoza's mother learned bright light could sometimes help those with vision problems similar to his. In 1972, hoping to help her son, she moved them both from New York to Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Mendoza was angry and bitter; he was a teenager who faced limitations he had never imagined. Enrolled in the New...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826337511
• ISBN13: 9780826337511
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"