{"product_id":"the-broken-boy-paperback","title":"The Broken Boy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Cockburn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn looks at his experience of contracting polio as a child in the context of a new pandemic, that of COVID-19. The parallels between what happened 65 years ago and today's crisis are both striking and salutary.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCockburn was just six when he woke up one day in the summer of 1956 with a headache and a sore throat. His parents, Claud and Patricia, had recently returned to Ireland, to their house in East Cork, careless of the fact that polio had broken out in Cork City. Patrick 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Broken Boy\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Cockburn\u003c\/strong\u003e is currently Middle East correspondent for the \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e and worked previously for the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e. He has written four books on Iraq's recent history--\u003cem\u003eThe Rise of Islamic State\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMuqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Occupation\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSaddam Hussein: An American Obsession\u003c\/em\u003e (with Andrew Cockburn)--as well as a memoir, \u003cem\u003eThe Broken Boy\u003c\/em\u003e and, with his son, a book on schizophrenia, \u003cem\u003eHenry's Demons\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for a Costa Award. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009, the Foreign Commentator of the Year in 2013, and the Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 7.72 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767013310752,"sku":"9781682192849","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d0faf926452980a35844e9fb4307c0a5.webp?v=1780302915","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-broken-boy-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}