The Broken Boy

Author: Patrick Cockburn
Publisher: CCV
Category: Biography: General, Autobiography: General, British & Irish History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Genealogy, Heraldry, Names & Honours, Popular Medicine & Health
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

It is very easy to get polio. Patrick Cockburn was six when he woke up one day in the summer of 1956 with a headache and a sore throat. His parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, had recently returned to Ireland, to their house in East Cork, careless of the fact that a polio epidemic had broken out in Cork City. He caught the disease and was taken to the fever hospital. The virus attacks the nerves of the brain and the spinal cord leading to paralysis of the muscles. Patrick could no longer walk.The Broken Boy is at once a memoir of Patrick Cockburn's own experience of polio, a portrait of his parents, both prominent radicals, and the story of the Cork epidemic, the last great polio epidemic in the world.

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

(BK-9780099459231)

SKU BK-9780099459231
Barcode # 9780099459231
Brand CCV
Artist / Author Patrick Cockburn
Shipping Weight 0.2200kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 13.000m
Assembled Height 19.800m
Assembled Width 1.900m
Type Paperback

Be The First To Review This Product!

Help other Augoods users shop smarter by writing reviews for products you have purchased.

Write a product review

More From This Category