Under the Eye of the Clock: A Memoir

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Christopher Nolan’s injuries at birth left him severely disabled and handicapped; he was once entirely paralyzed and unable to communicate, but he had such a lot to say and was once burning to express his innermost thoughts and ideas and share them with the world.

Nolan’s autobiography told in the third person through a narrator named Joseph Meehan is an astonishingly lyrical and inspired work, filled with powerful description and touching moments of triumph, sadness, anger, and above all disarming wit. Nolan’s story has a touching and breathtaking intensity, whether recounting his battle with local authorities to attend an strange school, going on a “normal” vacation, or his ultimate triumph of in spite of everything with the ability to share the insight and whimsy of his inner world.

Filled with linguistic puzzles, this bestseller in Britain and america and Whitbread Prize winner features a unique voice that comes from a deep place many will never keep in mind, but that may be enrapturing then again.

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 once a teen, was once 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 whilst 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.

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