{"product_id":"camping-underground-by-greg-mclaren-9781922571502","title":"camping underground","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet around Cessnock in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, \u003ci\u003ecamping underground\u003c\/i\u003e is a brutal, lyrical and cinematic narrative that lays out the scattered fragments of Kelly Edwards's life before and after the political violence she is implicated in unleashes a viral pandemic and societal collapse. Surviving the wreckage, moving amid the chaos while searching for her niece Ruth, while she has time, a mute, traumatised Kelly responds with violence of her own, as conflict and control dance around in the aftermath of the virus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMcLaren has written the Great Australian Apocalypse. \u003ci\u003ecamping underground\u003c\/i\u003e is a vernacular lament for our country's past, present, and possible futures, but it never succumbs to cynicism: it feels urgent, affectionate, and beautiful, full of despair and love and a biting sense of humour. I read it in one sitting, completely spellbound, and it made my heart both shrink and stretch.\u003c\/b\u003e - Fiona McFarlane\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMcLaren's verse grabs you like an accident, like the blood smell of metallic paint, or the flecks of hair and scalp behind a twisted steering wheel. His country towns, like his Australia, are human versions of a wrecker's yard, as if all the violence and unlived life of their inhabitants concentrated in that instant before death, and exploded. This poem is a record of that explosion.\u003c\/b\u003e - John Hughes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470224048364,"sku":"9781922571502","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922571502-camping-underground.jpg?v=1775214096","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/camping-underground-by-greg-mclaren-9781922571502","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}