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Written 13 years after his first autobiography, "My Left Foot", this is an autobiographical novel, set in Dublin during the '40s and '50s. The author, who died in 1981, was born a spastic and for the first six years of his life could not walk, talk nor control any of his limbs.

(Paperback)

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.