Book
Under the Eye of the Clock
- Published
- 1987
- Genre
- Biography
- Publisher
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Pages
- 163
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/946459.Under_The_Eye_of_the_Clock?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_26
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
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A remarkable work by several measures, Under the Eye of the Clock is the autobiography--told slyly through a third person alter-ego--of Christopher Nolan, struck at birth with brain damage and left paralyzed, spastic and mute. His first book, Dam-Burst of Dreams, written when he was a teen, was a collection of poems that exploded with linguistic virtuosity, earning him comparisons to Joyce and Yeats. Nolan, whose disability requires that someone cup his chin while he pushes a head-mounted pointer at the keyboard, tells here of battles in an un-handicapped world, the heroic efforts of his family and the sights of Ireland that surround him. The book won England's Whitbread prize.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780753807095
- ISBN-10
- 0753807092
Tags
AutobiographyDisabilityFamily LifeMemoirNolanNonfictionSocial Issues