{"product_id":"the-broken-king-by-michael-thomas-9781398562196","title":"The Broken King","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘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. \u003cem\u003eThe Broken King\u003c\/em\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.’\u003c\/strong\u003e Helen Macdonald, author of \u003cem\u003eH Is for Hawk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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’\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eMan Gone Down\u003c\/em\u003e – winner of the 2007 Dublin International Literary Award – comes 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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his second book and first work of nonfiction, \u003cem\u003eThe Broken King\u003c\/em\u003e, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and the beloved, trauma and recovery, success and failure in a unique, urgent, and timeless memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBringing to mind both James Baldwin’s \u003cem\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/em\u003e and Vladimir Nabokov’s \u003cem\u003eSpeak, Memory\u003c\/em\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 centre of \u003cem\u003eThe Broken King\u003c\/em\u003e is 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery page of \u003cem\u003eThe Broken King\u003c\/em\u003e rings 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47894146449644,"sku":"9781398562196","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781398562196-the-broken-king.jpg?v=1783219456","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-broken-king-by-michael-thomas-9781398562196","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}