{"product_id":"9780733636325","title":"Things We Didn't See Coming","description":"Author: Steven Amsterdam\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780733636325\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hachette Australia\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Jul 2016\u003cbr\u003ePages: 176 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'...the book as a whole is a small marvel, overflowing with ideas. Scary, funny, shocking and touching by turns, it combines the readerly pleasures of constant reorientation with the sober charge of an urgent warning. ..' - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe think we've seen it all before, but the future still arrives without warning.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the wry narrator of this riveting journey, each shift brings him somewhere new-he's protecting his grandparents from the world outside their city gates; he's evacuating squatters before the rains wash away everything; he's enjoying a senator's coddled enclave in the hills; he's being stalked up a tree by a plague survivor; he's negotiating love with a woman who is far tougher than he could ever be; he's leading adventure tours for the terminally ill. Despite the permanent emergency of the landscape, this fractured evolution feels anything but grim-instead, it reveals what it means to survive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Preternaturally assured, finely crafted and thoroughly accomplished, it deserves to be read widely.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-The Age (Melbourne)","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46465972207774,"sku":"ADS-9780733636325","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780733636325.jpg?v=1770010548","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780733636325","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}