内容简介: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.
作者简介:Patrick Cockburn writes on foreign affairs for the Independent. His previous books are Getting Russia Wrong and Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein.