Under the Eye of the Clock. This item is unavailable.Under the Eye of the Clock

" Deprived of oxygen for two hours at birth, Christopher Nolan almost died, but he lived to write, at age twenty-one, this award-winning autobiography, told as the story of one Joseph Meehan. Nolan's birth injuries left him quadriplegic and completely unable to communicate, so for years no one suspected that his mind, though imprisoned in an inert body, was burning to express his innermost thoughts and ideas to not only his family but the world. Whether he is fighting with the authorities for the right to go to an ordinary school, or going on a "normal" vacation for the first time, Nolan's story has a touching, often breathtaking intensity. Nolan recounts his ultimate triumph of finally being able to share with others the insight and whimsy of his inner world, unlocking the inventive wordsmith and gifted storyteller within. The result is astonishingly lyrical, filled with powerful description, touching moments of triumph, sadness, and anger, and above all disarming wit. "

" Christopher Nolan writes by having someone hold his head while he taps at a typewriter with a stick attached to his forehead-his "unicorn stick." He published Dam-Burst of Dreams, a book of poetry, at the age of fifteen, and Under the Eye of the Clock, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1987, at twenty-one. His acclaimed new novel, The Banyan Tree, is being published simultaneously by Arcade."