{"product_id":"2026200015105-secondhand-amazing-scenes-adventures-of-a-reptile-of-the-press","title":"Amazing Scenes!: Adventures Of A Reptile Of The Press","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the front lines of courtrooms, brothels, garden parties, and foreign wars, veteran Australian journalist Evan Whitton presents a raucous and razor-sharp collection of dispatches drawn from a lifetime of fearless reporting. Amazing Scenes! Adventures of a Reptile of the Press chronicles Whitton's encounters with the famous, the infamous, and the magnificently absurd — from fraught times at the court of Lauren Bacall and Bob Dylan speaking, to Pavarotti in laundry, the necking of Ronald Ryan, and a letter from the hangman — painting a vivid, often darkly comic portrait of the world as seen through the eyes of a seasoned press reptile.\n\nWhitton, celebrated author of Can of Worms, writes with the irreverent wit and unflinching candour that made him one of Australia's most distinguished investigative journalists. This anthology of extraordinary events argues implicitly that the truth, however strange, is always stranger and more compelling than fiction. Each vignette illuminates the absurdities of power, celebrity, and human nature with the precision of a scalpel and the glee of a born storyteller — leaving the reader wondering just which remarkable scene Whitton will uncover next.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203198656731,"sku":"2026200015105-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f164881a-6ccd-4c27-8235-a217a0ce592c.png?v=1788145448","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015105-secondhand-amazing-scenes-adventures-of-a-reptile-of-the-press","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}