{"product_id":"simpson-returns-by-wayne-macauley-9781925773507","title":"Simpson Returns","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimpson Returns\u003c\/i\u003e by Wayne Macauley offers a satirical and surreal twist on the Anzac legend of Simpson and his donkey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSimpson Returns\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46671410299116,"sku":"9781925773507","price":22.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18060403482873.jpg?v=1752816646","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/simpson-returns-by-wayne-macauley-9781925773507","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}