Broken Boy,the - Couverture rigide

Cockburn, Patrick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224071084 ISBN 13 : 9780224071086

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2005

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

"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)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0224071084
• ISBN 13: 9780224071086
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320