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The Broken Boy (Paperback)
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The Broken Boy (Paperback)
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Loot Price R342
Discovery Miles 3 420
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Total price: R362
Discovery Miles: 3 620
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In 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. Cockburn 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. 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.
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