Author : Christy Brown
Publisher : Random House
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1446466949
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. This is Christy Brown's own story. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot. In this manner he wrote his bestseller Down all the Days.
Author : Georgina Louise Hambleton
Publisher : Random House
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780573340
Christy Brown was severely disabled with cerebral palsy, unable to use any part of his body other than his left foot. Doctors said he was a 'mental defective' and that he would never be able to lead any kind of normal life; Christy proved them wrong. His mother taught him to write using chalk on the worn floor of their small home, and Christy grew into a talented artist and writer. His 1954 memoir My Left Foot was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, while his bestselling novel Down All the Days was described by the Irish Times as 'the most important novel since Ulysses'. Using previously unpublished letters and poems, this first authorised biography marks Christy Brown's importance as a writer and celebrates his indomitable spirit. His story proves that, with hope and determination, almost impossible odds can be overcome.
Author : Christy Brown
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 1971-08
Category : Cerebral palsy
ISBN : 9780671773496
Author : Christy Brown
Publisher :
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Jeffrey Ruoff
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816635610
Before 1973, the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, lived in the privacy of their own home. With the airing of the documentary An American Family, that "privacy" extended to every American home with a television. This book is the first to offer a close look at An American Family -- the documentary that blurred conventions, stirred passions, revised impressions of family life and definitions of private and public, and began the breakdown of distinctions between reality and spectacle that culminated in cultural phenomena from The Oprah Winfrey Show to Survivor.
Author : Anthony J. Jordan
Publisher : Westport Publishers Incorporated
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 1989-11-13
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author : Peter Ellison
Publisher : Folens Limited
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781843032311
This Student Book contains a varied collection of stimulating, wide-ranging extracts and pieces of non-fiction material to help students produce top quality writing. Each extract is preceded by key features for pupils to look for at word, sentence and whole text level. Each piece is specifically linked to Framework objectives.
Author : Gabriela Brimmer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781584657583
The remarkable autobiography of Mexican-Jewish disability rights activist and writer Gabriela Brimmer
Author : Elizabeth Grubgeld
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030372464
This book is the first to examine life writing and disability in the context of Irish culture. It will be valuable to readers interested in Disability Studies, Irish Studies, autobiography and life writing, working-class literature, popular culture, and new media. Ranging from Sean O’Casey’s 1939 childhood memoir to contemporary blogging practices, Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland analyzes a century of autobiographical writing about the social, psychological, economic, and physical dimensions of living with disabilities. The book examines memoirs of sight loss with reference to class and labor conditions, the harrowing stories of residential institutions and the advent of the independent living movement, and the autobiographical fiction of such acknowledged literary figures as Christy Brown and playwright Stewart Parker. Extending the discussion to the contemporary moment, popular genres such as the sports and celebrity autobiography are explored, as well as such newer phenomena as blogging and self-referential performance art.
