by Christopher Nolan · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330303163
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«Under the Eye of the Clock» is Christopher Nolan's novelised autobiography, published by Pan Books in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Autobiography narrated in the third person through the alter ego Joseph Meehan, in which Christopher Nolan, an Irish writer with cerebral palsy, evokes his childhood and youth. It describes his struggle to communicate and write with the aid of a headstick, the support of his family and the obstacles of a world not adapted to disability, in a testimony about identity and self-expression.
Winner of the 1987 Whitbread Book of the Year award. Subtitled 'The Life Story of Christopher Nolan', the book was originally published in 1987 and this paperback edition from Pan Books dates from 1988.
For readers of biographies and memoirs, especially those interested in Irish literature and in testimonies about disability and personal overcoming.
Christopher Nolan was an Irish poet and author. He was born in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin. He was educated at the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple Comprehensive School and at Trinity College, Dublin. His first book was published when he was fifteen. He won the Whitbread Book Award for his autobiography in 1987. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in the UK, the medal of excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers, and a Person of the Year award in Ireland.
