{"product_id":"the-broken-king-an-extraordinary-read-guardian","title":"The Broken King: 'An Extraordinary Read' Guardian","description":"‘Michael Thomas has written a truly extraordinary memoir, one that sears and sings with such terrible, beautiful honesty it will burn its way deep into your bones. \u003ci\u003eThe Broken King\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph, and reading it will leave you changed. It’s genuinely one of the most extraordinary and magical books I have ever read. I’m full of awe.’\u003cb\u003e Helen Macdonald, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eH Is for Hawk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘An extraordinary read – deeply personal and intimate, but also expansive and free-ranging’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Entirely mesmerizing… With a virtuosic command of language and an eagle eye for punishing detail, Thomas has rendered beautifully an excruciating existence from which it is impossible to turn away’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMan Gone Down \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e– winner of the 2007 Dublin International Literary Award – a deeply personal memoir of race, trauma, alcoholism, parenting, mental illness and ultimately hope in a portrait of three generations of Black American men\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his second book and first work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Broken King\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and the beloved, trauma and recovery, success and failure in a unique, urgent, and timeless memoir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing to mind both James Baldwin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time and \u003c\/i\u003eVladimir Nabokov’s \u003ci\u003eSpeak, Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas’ memoir unfolds through six powerful, interlocking and overlaying parts focusing on the lives of five men: his father—a philosopher, Boston Red Sox fan, and absent parent; his estranged older brother; his two sons growing up in Brooklyn; and always, heartbreakingly himself. At the center of \u003ci\u003eThe Broken King \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of Thomas’ own breakdown, a result of inherited family history and his own experiences, from growing up Black in the Boston suburbs to publishing a prize-winning novel with “the house of Beckett.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery page of \u003ci\u003eThe Broken King \u003c\/i\u003erings with the impact of America’s sweeping struggle with race and class, education and family, and builds to a brave, meticulous articulation of a creative mind’s journey into and out of madness.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46028484346047,"sku":"9781398562196","price":36.62,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/93903-0fceb291d8b5c929e027a547b9f9a12995bfea38905fe074fe655e5ad9ca1330.jpg?v=1786939132","url":"https:\/\/popweasel.co.nz\/products\/the-broken-king-an-extraordinary-read-guardian","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}