This autobiography is set in Dublin, Ireland, and almost the entire story takes place in the house where Christy Brown grew up.
Aside from some play with his brothers, Brown almost never left his home as a child and teenager, and so the house dominates his autobiography. It becomes a metaphor for the disabled body in which Christy Brown lived: a body which sustained his able mind but did not allow him free movement.
It must have been a crowded house, with two parents and thirteen children. It cannot have been a large one, as when Brown.....
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