{"product_id":"9781925773507","title":"Simpson Returns","description":"Author: Macauley, Wayne\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925773507\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Apr 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 144 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA satirical and surreal twist on the Anzac legend of Simpson and his donkey.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNinety years after they were thought to have died heroically in the Great War, the stretcher-bearer Simpson and his donkey journey through country Victoria, performing minor miracles and surviving on offerings left at war memorials. They are making their twenty-ninth, and perhaps final, attempt to find the country's famed Inland Sea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the road north from Melbourne, Simpson and his weary donkey encounter a broke single mother, a suicidal Vietnam veteran, a refugee who has lost everything, an abused teenager and a deranged ex-teacher. These are society's downtrodden, whom Simpson believes can be renewed by the healing waters of the sea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Simpson Returns, Wayne Macauley sticks a pin in the balloon of our national myth. A concise satire of Australian platitudes about fairness and egalitarianism, it is timely, devastating and witheringly funny.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48181149663390,"sku":"UBD-9781925773507","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925773507.jpg?v=1787399109","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925773507","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}