num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Broken Boy
titlecomplete: The Broken Boy
genres: Memoir
ratings_count: 23
publisher: Vintage Books