The autobiography of an Irish man born with cerebral palsy, who teaches himself to write and paint with his left foot and becomes a significant writer in Irish literature.

Read so long ago I cannot remember details except I remember author clearly. ( )

Very good. Brown was young when he wrote his autobiography, and had led an extremely restricted life with minimal education, but his writing is clear, expressive, and engaging. ( )

Excellent story, more matter-of-fact than the movie. ( )

I read this book on the cusp of the new millenium while I was in library school. As part of an assignment for my Popular Materials and Programming for Adults course, I wrote an annotation, which my professor, the incredible Dr. Linda Walling, lightly edited into the following version, for which she gave me an A-.

"Dublin teenager, profoundly disabled by cerebral palsy, intimately relates the lives of his sprawling family and their fellow poor. His angry, drunken father looms large in sharp contrast to his patient, virtuous mother. The author of My Left Foot mingles themes of birth and death with dream sequences in this, his fictionalized autobiography."

By the way, if you've never heard of, or read, Mr. Brown, I recommend checking him out. He wrote with one foot, literally. ( )