A Promising Career [Hardback, First Edition], Christy Brown

Hardback First UK Edition 1982, slight tear to the edge of the unclipped dust jacket (see photo), otherwise in very good condition. [Little Lane Bookshop]

A sad, funny and bizarre novel, set in England and telling of how the careers of two young musicians are taken over by a media manipulator. The severely disabled author, one of 23 children of a Dublin bricklayer, achieved fame with the autobiographical "My Left Foot" and subsequent novels.