{"product_id":"9780008399481","title":"The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown - Michael Patrick F. Smith (Paperback) 03-03-2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrillingly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Michael Patrick F. Smith \/ Non Fiction - Biography \/ 03-03-2022","offer_id":54910716051836,"sku":"9780008399481","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/2344\/8005\/files\/9780008399481.jpg?v=1738210274","url":"https:\/\/www.ivybridgebookshop.com\/products\/9780008399481","provider":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}