Down All The Days Author:Christy Brown A Book of the Month Club selection, later made into a film. By the author of My Left Foot. Christy Brown was one of 22 children raised in a Dublin slum. He was born with a severe form of cerebral palsy and had the full use only of his left foot. With the little toe of that foot he typed, one letter at a time and over 15 years, this book. Of it, ... more »the NYT said, "Nothing quite like it has been known in literature." It called Brown "a man of genius."« less