{"product_id":"9780008399481","title":"The Good Hand : A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown by Michael Patrick F. Smith","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56221540680053,"sku":"9780008399481","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008399481.jpg?v=1762196201","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780008399481","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}