Specifications
| Publisher | William Collins |
| ISBN 13 | 9780008399443 |
| ISBN 10 | 0008399441 |
| Author | Michael Patrick Smith |
| Language | English |
| Book 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 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. |
| About the Author | Michael Patrick F. Smith is a folksinger and playwright currently based in central Kentucky. His plays, including Woody Guthrie Dreams and Ain’t No Sin, have been staged in Baltimore and New York. As a musician, Smith has shared the stage with folk luminaries such as Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. He has also worked as a stage actor, junk hauler, furniture mover, legal assistant, book store clerk, contractor, driver, office temp, stagehand, set fabricator, bartender, and now writer. The Good Hand is his first book. |
| Publication Date | 2021-02-16 |
| Number of Pages | 448 pages |
The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown
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