![]() Throughout his autobiography, Brown acknowledges the friends and guides who have helped him along the way: social worker Katriona Delahunt, doctor and writer Robert Collis, teacher M. particularly funny are the author's descriptions of his large brood of siblings, who take him on adventures through working-class Dublin in a battered little go-cart named Henry. One of the most moving scenes is of the candlelight procession at Lourdes, which Brown describes as 'the most beautiful moment of my life'. But through painting and writing - with his left foot - he is able to express his pent-up feelings and experience moments of transcendence. At times, when he tells of his feelings of loneliness, entrapment and suffocation, it is heartbreakingly painful. ![]() Barely able to talk, at the age of five he picked up a piece of chalk with his left foot, the only part of the body with any flexibility, and thus began to communicate.Ä«rown has the Irish gift of storytelling, and writes simply and lirically about his life. Christy Brown was an imaginative, sensitive soul trapped in a body twisted and crippled by cerebral palsy. ![]() Published when the author was only 22 years old, My Left Foot is the story of an extraordinary person. ![]()
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