A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021
'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny … like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy'
DAVID LIPSKY
'After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard day's work in your life … This lyrical and engrossing memoir is an extraordinary tale … Undeniably powerful'
SUNDAY TIMES
The must-read memoir of 2021.
Michael Patrick Smith grew up in a ramshackle farmhouse where his father beat the walls and threw dinner plates. As a restless young man left unmoored by the crashing economy, Smith cut a path to North Dakota to rent a mattress on a flophouse floor. Sleeping boot to beard with the other rough-edged men looking to earn a cent drilling for oil, Smith wanted the work to burn him clean - of his violent upbringing, his demons, his disjointed, doomed relationships. He did not expect, among these quick-fisted, foul-mouthed hands, to find a community.
The Good Hand is a memoir of danger and exhaustion, of suffering, loneliness and grit, of masculinity and of learning how to reconcile yourself to yourself.
| ISBN: | 9780008399481 |
| Publication date: | 3rd March 2022 |
| Author: | Michael Patrick F Smith |
| Publisher: | William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 464 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs True stories of heroism, endurance and survival True stories of survival of abuse and injustice Autobiography: general Fossil fuel technologies |
A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny … like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy'DAVID LIPSKY'After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard day's work in your life … This lyrical and engrossing memoir is an extraordinary tale … Undeniably powerful' SUNDAY TIMESThe must-read memoir of 2021.Michael Patrick Smith grew up in a ramshackle farmhouse where his father beat the walls and threw dinner plates. As a restless young man left unmoored by the crashing economy, Smith cut a path to North Dakota to rent a mattress on a flophouse floor.
The Good Hand features in the following genres: Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Autobiography: general, Fossil fuel technologies
Paperback, . £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. In Stock.
The Good Hand was written by Michael Patrick F Smith and published by William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Good Hand has 464 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.