{"product_id":"simpson-returns","title":"Simpson Returns","description":"\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":"Wayne Macauley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516786245693,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925773507.jpg?v=1787573123","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/simpson-returns","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}