The Broken Boy
Patrick Cockburn
320 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 009945923X
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Language: English
Publish: July 25, 2006
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.