{"product_id":"9781922571502","title":"camping underground","description":"Author: Greg McLaren\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922571502\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Puncher and Wattmann\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Sep 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 130 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet around Cessnock in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, \u003ci\u003ecamping underground\u003c\/i\u003e is a brutal, lyrical and cinematic narrative that lays out the scattered fragments of Kelly Edwards's life before and after the political violence she is implicated in unleashes a viral pandemic and societal collapse. Surviving the wreckage, moving amid the chaos while searching for her niece Ruth while she has time, a mute, traumatised Kelly responds with violence of her own, as conflict and control dance around in the aftermath of the virus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'McLaren has written the Great Australian Apocalypse.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ecamping underground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a vernacular lament for our country's past, present, and possible futures, but it never succumbs to cynicism: it feels urgent, affectionate, and beautiful, full of despair and love and a biting sense of humour. I read it in one sitting, completely spellbound, and it made my heart both shrink and stretch.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e-Fiona McFarlane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'McLaren's verse grabs you like an accident, like the blood smell of metallic paint, or the flecks of hair and scalp behind a twisted steering wheel. His country towns, like his Australia, are human versions of a wrecker's yard, as if all the violence and unlived life of their inhabitants concentrated in that instant before death, and exploded. This poem is a record of that explosion.' -John Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47925021671582,"sku":"ING-9781922571502","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922571502.jpg?v=1782957608","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922571502","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}