Christy Brown was born in Dublin in 1932 with cerebral palsy. Behind the helpless child, who many people wrote off, was an articulate, imaginative writer. His mother always believed in him and helped him to learn to communicate against the odds. This is his autobiography.

My Left Foot

BROWN, Christy

Teen & Young Adult

Collins Educational

A shadow on summer

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Pan Books

Collected Poems: Come Softly to My Wake, Background Music and of Snails and Skylarks

History & Criticism

David&Charles

Down All the Days

<p>A novel which focuses on a young cripple, his childhood and his coming of age, who acts as a detached observer of life in the slums of Dublin, during the 1940s and 50s.</p>

Down all the days

Stein& Day

NEW FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER WITH MINOR SHELF LIFE WEAR.

Come softly to my wake: The poems of Christy Brown

Poetry

Secker and Warburg

Fine copy in lightly worn DJ, not price clipped an dnow in Mylar.

Background music; poems

Seeker and Warburg

Riley McCombe, a crippled Irish novelist, is on his first visit to the United States, guest of his British publisher's old friends, Laurie and Don Emerson. He is there to celebrate the American publication of his first novel, but more important, to complete in the peace and quiet of a small Connecticut seaside town, his second book. For that task, Laurie becomes his guide and mentor. This peace is disturbed by the young freelance photographer, Abbie Lang, hired by Riley's American publishers to take photographs at their celebration party. To Riley she is something sxciting and exotic; and Abbie falls in love. She takes him on a sight-seeing tour of New York, marvelously described, and then to her Greenwich Village studio where fruitlessly they spend the night together. For in the developing drama that emerges it becomes clear that though Abbie and Laurie both, in the their different ways, love him, Riley is incapable of response. He is a prisoner of his own ego, a man struggling at all costs for self-fulfillment through his writing, torture though his struggle may be. So he casts a shadow on the lives of both these mutually antagonistic women during the long New England summer. At the end, his book is finished, but will he ever write another? Abbie has been cast aside, but in a finely written chapter Laurie endeavors to give him hope. There may yet be a summer without shadows. In the end it must be up to him.

A Shadow on Summer

Secker Warburg

WILD GROW THE LILIES

Irish journalist Luke Sheridan, newly jilted, sets out to cover the story of a poisoning gone awry and ends up in a boisterous party tht moves at the pace of the Keystone Kops set loose in a fun house. From Madame Lala's house of pleasure, with her most alluring "girl" Babysoft, and Count Fustenhalter, the designated murder victim, through gallons of drink and hours of orgy, we are exposed to a multi-bedroom farce of the good, old-fashioned, earthy, laugh-out-loud kind.

Wild grow the lilies: An antic novel

Women's Fiction

A sad, funny and bizarre novel, set in England and telling of how the careers of two young musicians are taken over by a media manipulator. The severely disabled author, one of 23 children of a Dublin bricklayer, achieved fame with the autobiographical "My Left Foot" and subsequent novels.

A promising career

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

A novel which focuses on a young cripple, his childhood and his coming of age, who acts as a detached observer of life in the slums of Dublin, during the 1940s and 50s.

Contemporary

Mandarin

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