{"product_id":"9781761770142","title":"Henry Goes Bush","description":"Author: Wayne Marshall\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761770142\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan Australia\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 28 Apr 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe price of genius is one hell of a hangover.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIn 1892, New South Wales' most promising writer and least promising teetotaller, Henry Lawson, is banished to Bourke to 'find the real bush'. The goal: sober up, gather fresh material, and stop being such a disappointment. But what Australia's favourite literary son discovers in the river town is less a glorious national frontier than a collective nervous breakdown.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nHistory records this as the trip that defined his career. Wayne Marshall records it as a surrealist action movie where Lawson must outrun his own myth and a gunslinger known as The Rider, aka Banjo - a poet significantly better at being a legend than Henry is.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eHenry Goes Bush\u003c\/i\u003e confronts the madness that lies behind our colonial dreaming - a moment where history is a hallucination and 'the bush' a phantasmagoric theme park. A reality in which \u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin's\u003c\/i\u003e famed poetry wars are an actual shootout on the banks of the Darling River.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIt turns out finding 'the real Australia' is easy; the hard part is surviving the encounter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n'like nothing you've read before' - MICHAEL WINKLER\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n'a genre-defying wonder of a novel' - RYAN O'NEILL\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n'surreal, singular, and deeply moving' - RHETT DAVIS","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47845864964254,"sku":"TLD-9781761770142","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781761770142.jpg?v=1781223319","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781761770142","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}