My Left Foot

My Left Foot is Christy Brown's inspirational story of his early life, his battle against the restraints of cerebral palsy and his struggle to learn to read, write, and paint, all with the aid of his left foot.

Informationen zum Autor Christy Brown was born in 1932. He was one of 23 children born to a Dublin bricklayer. A victim of cerebral palsy, he could not control his speech or his movement, apart from his left foot. This enabled him to paint and type his autobiography My Left Foot. He later wrote an autobiographical novel, Down all the Days , which was very successful. His novels are A Promising Career , A Shadow on Summer and Wild Grow the Lilies , and he also published his poetry in Collected Poems . Christy Brown died in 1981. Klappentext Christy Brown was born in 1932. He was one of 23 children born to a Dublin bricklayer. A victim of cerebral palsy, he could not control his speech or his movement, apart from his left foot. This enabled him to paint and type this autobiography. He later wrote an autobiographical novel, Down all the Days , which was very successful. His novels include A Promising Career , A Shadow on Summer and Wild Grow the Lillies , and he also published his poetry in Collected Poems . Christy Brown died in 1981. Zusammenfassung Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot.

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My Left Foot is Christy Brown's inspirational story of his early life, his battle against the restraints of cerebral palsy and his struggle to learn to read, write, and paint, all with the aid of his left foot.

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Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot.