The Broken Boy - Hardcover

Cockburn, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224071084 ISBN 13: 9780224071086

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2005

Synopsis

A personal memoir of the last great polio epidemic, affecting 50,000 people, and of the author’s own experience of polio; a portrait of his parents, both radicals; and the story of the epidemic in Cork, Ireland, where the author and his family lived in the mid 1950s.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrick Cockburn writes on foreign affairs for the Independent. His previous books are Getting Russia Wrong and Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein.

Review:

"Charming, interesting and moving by turn" -- Anthony Daniels * Sunday Telegraph * "Engrossing... an often perceptive genre-defying gem...engaging and entertaining" -- Tom Adair * Scotland on Sunday * "This is wonderful writing...Brilliant...Cockburn has pulled off something remarkable" * Observer * "The best journalist's autobiography to appear for years... This is a story of endurance and a hugely adventurous mind, elegantly told" * Evening Standard * "Sad and entertaining, and altogether evocative of a vanished Ireland" * Sunday Times *

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0224071084
• ISBN 13: 9780224071086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320