About the Author

Christopher Nolan, who was deprived of oxygen for two hours at birth, was mute and paralyzed. His memoir, Under the Eye of the Clock, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1987. He died in 2009 in Dublin at the age of forty-thre

Reviews

"Richly--even baroquely--told . . . Nolan writes with verve." --The New York Times Book Review "A work of genius. Everything in this story simmers with life."--Christian Science Monitor "Beautifully Written. Nolan mesmerizes us from the opening passage . . . His descriptive prowess reminds one of Joyce."--Boston Sunday Globe