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is one of the most overlooked books of the lastyears, not only b/c of the fact that Nolan wrote it with a stick attached to his head, but because of the language itself.
It is Joyceian in many ways, but it is also Nolan's own voice, His descriptions are vivid, his narration is strong, his word use is brilliant, It only took me so long to read it, because of the heavy per se nature of the book, I could only take so much at a time.
A great book though. Surely a remarkable achievement by Nolan in view of the tremendous obstacles he had to overcome, in some degree paralleling that of Helen Keller, Perhaps most impressive is the indomitable spirit of Nolan, boy and man, An inspiring true story. And yet, why only two
First, because the story doesn't really go anywhere Nolan succeeds in finding ways to communicate and he gains admittance to good schools.
End of story. And then there's his allsinging, alldancing, allencompassing, allegorical alliteration, . any pairing, however farfetched will do, After the first fifty pages of that, it becomes tiresome, Time is not on my side, The novel was really inspiring, It tells the story of a young disabled boy named Joseph, the son of Matthew and Nore, brother to Yvonne, The family is coping and struggling with his condition, always encouraging him and lifting him up during his trying times, He manages to climb the man made mountains to excel in his literary skills despite some bad reviews from other quarters, An inspiring novel The language and imagery are so richI had to read this one chapter at a time, This young man had no ability to speak 'til his father taped a stick to his head and placed a computer keyboard in front of him.
years of thought rushed out as his first book of poetry, including some invented words to best describe his view of the world, This is his second book: an autobiography, Amazing. Inspirational. Think ability. I have Been read Christopher Nolan's life is struggling with his body with our Disability, He was Joseph as the creator been won for many the award in Londons, As the artist has been writing a beautiful poet and literary, He has an inclusion education in his school, F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote this advice to a young friend whose writing he found wanting: "You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner.
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Christopher Nolan had the courage to turn life into art, to write his soul onto paper, The result is a novel that soars and dips with young Joseph Meehan shifting restlessly between selfpity and delight, wry humour and despair, cynicism and admiration.
The prose flies into your psyche, demanding to be read, demanding your attention by plunging you with no apology into this world that can only be explored through Nolan's richly tactile prose.
Robbed of that kinetic ability common to the majority of us, he instead infuses his inner world with movement, feeling and physicality, This book has some of the most beautiful prose passages I have ever read passages I will return to again and again, just for the feel of them.
The author was born profoundly handicapped by cerebral palsy, having little control over his body and unable to speak, Fortunately for him, his parents gave him unconditional love, included him in all they did, talked to him and his father told unlimited stories and recited poetry to him from an early age.
They realised that he was intelligent and could understand what he wanted by a system of empathy, close observation and nods from the boy, He was sent to a special school where he learnt to read and write, then they managed to find a secondary school which was equally openminded and inclusive.
His mother initially helped him to write, supporting his head while he typed, letter by painstaking

letter, When he was, he won a literary award from was then called the British Spastics Society, his case was publicised and IT specialists started working with him to find ways for him to communicate using a computer.
This book is his autobiography, but he renames himself and his parents, In the book, he calls himself Joseph, perhaps in reference to a moment of supreme happiness when he took part in his schools performance of Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
In parts the language in this book is extraordinary, with unusual word uses and imagined words, with passages that jump from the page with originality.
In other parts the language is more pedestrian, Whether this is a result of different parts being written when he was younger, of joining more poetic parts together with narrative prose, or whether his mother edited or even wrote the rest to make it into a coherent book and speed the process up, I wouldnt like to speculate.
What is certain is that Christopher Nolans life was both extraordinary and extraordinarily difficult and the less fanciful passages are a necessary respite from the sheer flights of fancy of the rest.
Verdict: Due to the concentration required to read parts of this book, it took far longer than anticipated, but I shall certainly make the effort to read the rest to find out what happened to him up to the age ofwhen this was published.
If I could giveto a book, this would be it!



Christopher Nolan's "Under The Eye Of The Clock" is an autobiographical account of his incredibly aweinspiring and miraculous life.
Born a cripple, he could have been consigned to the rubbish heap but instead and against all odds became a celebrated writer of this Whitbread Book winner, "The Banyan Tree" as well as an early book of poems.
Without taking anything away from Joseph Meehan a self portrait of Nolan, he couldn't have overcome his debilitating handicaps to scale the heights he did without the steady support and tender loving care of his family.
A father, mother and sister who are such warm and emotionally intelligent human beings anybody would be blessed and proud to have them as family.
The school principals, teachers and fellow students who accepted him, nurtured him and gave him the chance to prove himself equal to the best among physically whole human specimens are themselves shining examples of humanity who deserve as much recognition in Nolan's lifestory.
Although it has been compared with James Joyce's "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man", it is in reality nothing like it, Whereas Joyce's work is for the most part depressing and full of pain and harshness, Nolan's story is so morally uplifting you almost forget its grave subject matter.
Nolan's dazzling and inventive writing style is also unique and something to relish, He coins and mints new words which have a yet found a conventional meaning but are so emotionally accurate you know they're right, Read this if you're feeling down and need something to restore your faith in mankind ! This award winning inspirational book did change my life in terms of being able to see my own life as completely unencumbered in comparison and absolutely floored by the level of intensity and focus required for the author to create this completely original work.
As I have a mild form of Cerebral Palsy myself I'd read about Christopher Nolan before as one of the few celebrities with CP, I really wanted to like this book a lot more, but didn't, Main reason was the third person narrative, it kept me at a distance, and I would have liked to get closer, Sure, his language is beautiful and it was nice to get in his head, but I got the feeling that it was just a part of the truth.
somehow it was all a bit too beautiful, there was too much support, understanding, encouragement, fate, family, friends and lovely people around and too little of the struggle, the bullying and the loneliness all the disabled people I know experience.
This book was remarkable first because the author wrote the entire novel using a stick attached to his head to hit the letters on a keyboard.
He was severely disabled. His writing was much like James Joyce, I read this in graduate school at The Evergreen State College, We were the first Master in Teaching class in the school's history and I lead a team to obtain an endorsement in special education, This book is just so beautifully written and almost poetic in its language, Moving, sad, uplighting and sometimes very funny, Christopher Nolan is such a bright, engaging young man with what might be seen, by some, as insurmountable physical problems due to his disability, Not so. His ability to write so brilliantly at such a young age is astounding, Honest, downtoearth reality of his life but with presented with such humour and courage, Another book that I would giveif I only could! A remarkable work by several measures, Under the Eye of the Clock is the autobiographytold slyly through a third person alteregoof Christopher Nolan, struck at birth with brain damage and left paralyzed, spastic and mute.
His first book, DamBurst of Dreams, written when he was a teen, was a collection of poems that exploded with linguistic virtuosity, earning him comparisons to Joyce and Yeats.
Nolan, whose disability requires that someone cup his chin while he pushes a headmounted pointer at the keyboard, tells here of battles in an unhandicapped world, the heroic efforts of his family and the sights of Ireland that surround him.
The book won England's Whitbread prize, Different There's very little I can say about this novel, except for, . This is a long way from the books I usually read, and I don't regret picking it up for one second,

Christopher Nolan's story is an important one for every single person out there, It makes you realize that every human being no matter how ablebodied they are is still human and should be treated that way, It sends an important message,

The writing is definitely something to get used to as Nolan uses words and language in general in a very unique way, I often had to reread sentences and paragraphs but that's what made my reading experience even more special,

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I wanted to like it more than I did considering who it was written by and how it was written, but I found it difficult to follow at some points and didn't know a lot of the words he used! But it is inspiring and I appreciate and really respect the effort gone into writing this I wasn't totally in love with this book, and for that I feel nothing but guilt.
I mean, it was written by a guy who has absolutely no controlled body movement other than his eyes and it's an impressive feat, There were lovely moments of careful writing and great descriptions, but the beauty comes much more from the writer's story than the story he tells.
Impressive. Really good. Nolans writing is simply beautiful, He truly mastered various literary devices, using them in a uniquely wonderful way, What a unique and interesting book, Poor Christopher Nolan was born without the ability to use his body and could only type using a special tapping device on his forehead, What a challenge. Within his impotent body, however, a powerful mind thrived, He wrote several books, including this one, in his short life,

His language is clipped where you expect detail and spacious where you expect brevity, and convoluted to a point where it makes it difficult to tease out a meaning at times.
It was more like poetry in many spots, Still, I didn't want to put it down, I had to read it just to follow his line of thought and gain insight into his sealed world, Amazing!!! Christopher Nolan was a brilliant author trapped within a paralyzed and mute body, typing one letter at a time with a stick attached to his head.
Not only did he finish school, including some college, he had an amazingly positive attitude in overcoming other obstacles, This book really makes me rethink my attitude, This is a memoir written by Nolan, an Irish man with cerebral palsy, mostly paralyzed and unable to move with coordination, At age, he got on a medication that allowed him to control his tremors and he was able to start typing with a stick attached to his head.
His first effort was a volume of JamesJoycian like poetry, His second book was this memoir, Recommended. Christopher Nolan had an above average intelligence and the misfortune of having Cerebral Palsy, With the help ofdrug, an incredible family and sheer determination he changed history, This is his life story written in the third person,

This is a must read, Very hard to understand and jumps around too much for me, Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name, sitelink See this thread for information, Christopher Nolan was an Irish poet and author, son of Joseph and Bernadette Nolan, He grew up in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin to attend college, He was educated at the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple Comprehensive School and at Trinity College, Dublin, His first book was published when he was fifteen, He won the Whitbread Book Award, for his autobiography in, He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in the UK, the medal of excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers, and a Person of the Year award in Ireland.
Due to birth complications, Nolan was born with cereb Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name, sitelink See this thread for information, Christopher Nolan was an Irish poet and author, son of Joseph and Bernadette Nolan, He grew up in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin to attend college, He was educated at the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple Comprehensive School and at Trinity College, Dublin, His first book was published when he was fifteen, He won the Whitbread Book Award, for his autobiography in, He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in the UK, the medal of excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers, and a Person of the Year award in Ireland.
Due to birth complications, Nolan was born with cerebral palsy, and could only move his head and eyes, To write, Nolan used a special computer and keyboard in order to help him type, his mother, Bernadette Nolan, held his head in her cupped hands while Christopher painstakingly picked out each word, letter by letter, with a pointer attached to his forehead.
He communicated with others by moving his eyes, using a signal system, sitelink.