by Christy Brown · FABER. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749301019
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«My Left Foot» is the autobiography of Irish writer Christy Brown, published by Faber in paperback (184 pages, in English).
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, reflects in this autobiography on his childhood and youth in Ireland. He tells how he learned to read, write, paint and type with his left foot, and how those abilities allowed him to become a writer and artist.
This edition was published in 1989; the cover announces the movie adaptation starring Daniel Day-Lewis, winner of an Academy Award.
For readers of biographies, memoirs and Irish literature; also for those seeking testimonies about disability.
Christy Brown was an Irish writer and painter. He had cerebral palsy, and this allowed him to write or type only with the toes of one foot. His most recognized work is his autobiography, titled My Left Foot (1954). It was later made into a 1989 Academy Award-winning film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown.
