| Description |
xii, 163 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
An Irish boy severely disabled by cerebal palsy writes of himself in the third person of Joseph Meehan. He tells how Joseph breaks free of his handicap and reveals the realities of a world many have never known. |
| Contents |
Preface / John Carey -- A Modicum of Aloe -- Hell Guffawed -- White Sheets of Life -- The Stirring of the Muse -- The Eight-Legged Pony -- Knife Used -- The Night That Was In It -- An Eyeful of Derravaragh -- If He Could But Earth Himself -- My Boyhood Epiphany -- I've Cracked It -- Slavery was Abolished -- The Cool Green Garden -- 'head the ball' -- The Sound of Footsteps -- A Dream Being Shattered -- Kernelled Loneliness -- Academics' Thesaurus of Thoughts -- His Human Wasteland. |
| Subject |
Nolan, Christopher, 1965-2009.
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Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Cerebral palsied children -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0312012667 |
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9780312012663 |
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