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The Broken Boy

The Broken Boy

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.

Patrick Cockburn

  • OR Books
  • 9781682192849
  • 350 pages
  • €17.99
  • Paperback / softback
  • United States
  • Memoirs