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Title: Bauby has written a couragous memoir.
Review: If you liked this book an even better one is Under the eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan. It is the story of a neurologically handicapped boy who turns to writing once he is given the correct medication, to allow himself to touch the keys of a typewriter with a stick.The difference for me in the two memoirs is that Bauby was a good wrtiter but Nolan is a gifted writer. Nolan was able to keep inside himself, prior to his release post medication, an enormous wealth of lyrical prose. Nolan is Irish and the text is truely musical in quality. The boy's upbringing is remarkable and his family is likewise admirable and courageous.Nolan's book is one of the best books I have ever read. The musical quality of the text is similar to Cry the Beloved Country by Patton. Other books that deal with neurologically impaired but gifted people are An Anthropologist on Mars and The Man who MIstook his Hat for his wife, by OLiver Sachs.
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