{"product_id":"9781925498363","title":"Losing It","description":"Author: Burke, Moira\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925498363\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 May 2017\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful reflection of early 80s working-class Melbourne, \u003ci\u003eLosing It\u003c\/i\u003e is set in a time of tight jeans, blue eyeshadow and Countdown - and of risky underage sex and drugs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie's mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Josie is surviving, or not-self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships.\u003cbr\u003eBut her internal monologue-intense, immediate and raw-reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1998,\u003ci\u003e Losing It\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid and visceral account of 1980s working-class Melbourne and a coming-of-age story that is both familiar and unique, shocking and intimate.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48171406164126,"sku":"UBD-9781925498363","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925498363.jpg?v=1787220540","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925498363","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}