The Broken Boy
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OR Books, 2022.
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9781682192917

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Patrick Cockburn., & Patrick Cockburn|AUTHOR. (2022). The Broken Boy . OR Books.

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Patrick Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn|AUTHOR. 2022. The Broken Boy. OR Books.

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Patrick Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn|AUTHOR. The Broken Boy OR Books, 2022.

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Patrick Cockburn, and Patrick Cockburn|AUTHOR. The Broken Boy OR Books, 2022.

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    [synopsis] => It is very easy to get polio. The celebrated Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn was just six years old 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. Cockburn caught the disease and was taken to the fever hospital where, alone for the first time in his life, he was kept in isolation. The virus attacks the nerves of the brain and the spinal cord leading to paralysis of the muscles. Patrick could no longer walk.

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