num_pages: 163
description: 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 a teen, was 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 while 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.
language: English
title: Under The Eye of the Clock
titlecomplete: Under The Eye of the Clock
genres: Ireland, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Irish Literature, Biography Memoir, Disability
ratings_count: 401
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Biography and Book of the Year
publisher: Pan Book