Description
| Product ID: | 9780008399436 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Good Hand |
| Subtitle: | A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith |
| Page Count: | 464 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Fossil fuel technologies, Fossil fuel technologies, England, USA, c 1990 to c 2000, c 2010 to c 2020 |
| Description: | A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKY 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | William Collins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-03-04 |
