{"product_id":"9780285627093-secondhand-the-coconut-book-a-novel","title":"The Coconut Book: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a forgotten castaway   one an island in the thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean. He writes his   story in a battered paperback novel, covering the space between printed lines   and around the margins before packing the book into a coconut shell and   sending it out to drift to sea, hoping that it will be found. Who is this   forgotten man? In a remarkable feat of imaginative skill, Richard Maynard   records the thoughts, feelings and struggle for survival of the ultimate   castaway, a man whose name and background we are never told but whose inner   life we come to know intimately. Alone on his few square yards of sand, rocks   and stunted palms he writes of his despair and self-pity, his triumphs and   fantasies, his struggle to stay alive. He occupies his time by measuring the   island that has become his prison, and the solitary spider that shares his   home becomes his only friend. As time goes by, dreams and reality begin to   blend. He realises that the elderly man who appears before him is a figment   of his imagination, as her the sounds of music and laughter that float across   the sea from an island that seems to be in the distant haze. One day he will   find the courage to swim over to the island, following the sounds of music...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810576609499,"sku":"9780285627093-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9780285627093-us-300.jpg?v=1779843258","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780285627093-secondhand-the-coconut-book-a-novel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}