Under the Eye of the Clock: The Life Story of Christopher NolanPan Books, 1988 - 207 pages Winner of the 1987 Whitbread Book of the Year. |
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... chair glanced off the leg of the desk . Sudden can be the only word to describe Joseph's ejection from his breathtaking seat . Like a cannonball he shot from his chair , up in the air he flew and down he crashed on his forehead . Dizzy ...
... chair glanced off the leg of the desk . Sudden can be the only word to describe Joseph's ejection from his breathtaking seat . Like a cannonball he shot from his chair , up in the air he flew and down he crashed on his forehead . Dizzy ...
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... chair . Fashioning himself as normal had been his schoolboy's goal and now here beside him he had his foolproof account of his desperate disabled life . Pretty well all of his class accepted that he had normal intelligence , but of ...
... chair . Fashioning himself as normal had been his schoolboy's goal and now here beside him he had his foolproof account of his desperate disabled life . Pretty well all of his class accepted that he had normal intelligence , but of ...
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... chair . The wheels hugged the aisle as woman hugs her first- born . Umpteen times had his chair swished up the church , but now heavyladen with sins including savage - signalled obscenity and a half - stone bag of Golden Wonders , it ...
... chair . The wheels hugged the aisle as woman hugs her first- born . Umpteen times had his chair swished up the church , but now heavyladen with sins including savage - signalled obscenity and a half - stone bag of Golden Wonders , it ...
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