My Left Foot

Author: Christy Brown
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446466949
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is Christy Brown's own story. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot. In this manner he wrote his bestseller Down all the Days.

Christy Brown

Author: Georgina Louise Hambleton
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1780573340
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
Christy Brown was severely disabled with cerebral palsy, unable to use any part of his body other than his left foot. Doctors said he was a 'mental defective' and that he would never be able to lead any kind of normal life; Christy proved them wrong. His mother taught him to write using chalk on the worn floor of their small home, and Christy grew into a talented artist and writer. His 1954 memoir My Left Foot was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, while his bestselling novel Down All the Days was described by the Irish Times as 'the most important novel since Ulysses'. Using previously unpublished letters and poems, this first authorised biography marks Christy Brown's importance as a writer and celebrates his indomitable spirit. His story proves that, with hope and determination, almost impossible odds can be overcome.

Her Right Foot

Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 145216293X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her? She's in New York. She's holding a torch. And she's taking one step forward. But why? In this fascinating, fun take on nonfiction, uniquely American in its frank tone and honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the powerful message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation. Can you believe that?

Kick with my Left Foot

Author: Paul Seden
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743434154
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
A lively and endearing story about a child in an Indigenous community getting ready to play his favourite game - footy! SHORT-LISTED: CBCA Book of the Year, Crichton Award for New Illustrators, 2015 I pull the sock on my left foot I pull the sock on my right foot I lace up the boot on my left foot I lace up the boot on my right foot . It's time for footy! A cheerful, energetic story about a young boy playing Australia's favourite game. This book was produced through the Emerging Indigenous Picture Book Mentoring Project, a joint initiative between The Little Big Book Club and Allen & Unwin, assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

Author: Emily Rapp Black
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1912559277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee. At first sight of Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs and learned that she had to hide her disability from the world. Kahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo’s art, Rapp Black recognized her own life, from the numerous operations to the compulsion to create to silence pain. Here she tells her story of losing her infant son to Tay-Sachs, giving birth to a daughter, and learning to accept her body. She writes of how Frida Kahlo inspired her to find a way forward when all seemed lost. Book cover image: Frida Kahlo, prosthetic limb. Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Archives. Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust.

The Childhood Story of Christy Brown (previously Entitled My Left Foot)

Author: Christy Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description

A Cultured Left Foot

Author: Musa Okwonga
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9780715637630
Category : Soccer
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
All agree that Pele and Maradona had it. Most agree that Zidane has it, and that Gazza almost had it. Laid out here are the eleven key elements that make up footballing greatness, in a thinking-man's study of the beautiful game."

Two Left Feet

Author: Adam Stower
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780747571438
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Rufus, a monster who has trouble dancing due to his two left feet, finds the perfect partner for the dance competition.

Rosie's Two Left Feet

Author: Jean Davis Callaghan
Publisher: Honey Bear Books
ISBN: 9781561447510
Category : Shoes
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
When Rosie's new shoes turn out to be two left shoes, she and her mother must come up with new footwear for her for Grandpa's party.

A Shadow on Summer

Author: Christy Brown
Publisher: Stein and Day
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Christy Brown follows the enormous success of his My Left Foot with an novel about a crippled Irish author who came to suburban Connecticut and New York to finish his second book. The love of women confronts his need for self-fulfillment, leading us on a journey into the soul of an artist.