{"product_id":"9781925773507-secondhand-simpson-returns","title":"Simpson Returns","description":"A satirical and surreal twist on the Anzac legend of Simpson and his donkey.\n\nNinety 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.\n\nOn 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.\n\nIn 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":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48784189784283,"sku":"9781925773507-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f8972ec3-55e1-44dd-b689-cbaf42beebe4.jpg?v=1779118044","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781925773507-secondhand-simpson-returns","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}