{"product_id":"henry-goes-bush","title":"Henry Goes Bush","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe price of genius is one hell of a hangover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1892, New South Wales' most promising writer and least promising teetotaller, Henry Lawson, is banished to Bourke to 'find the real bush'. The goal: sober up, gather fresh material, and stop being such a disappointment. But what Australia's favourite literary son discovers in the river town is less a glorious national frontier than a collective nervous breakdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory records this as the trip that defined his career. Wayne Marshall records it as a surrealist action movie where Lawson must outrun his own myth and a gunslinger known as The Rider, aka Banjo - a poet significantly better at being a legend than Henry is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Goes Bush confronts the madness that lies behind our colonial dreaming - a moment where history is a hallucination and 'the bush' a phantasmagoric theme park. A reality in which The Bulletin's famed poetry wars are an actual shootout on the banks of the Darling River.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt turns out finding 'the real Australia' is easy; the hard part is surviving the encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'like nothing you've read before' - MICHAEL WINKLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'a genre-defying wonder of a novel' - RYAN O'NEILL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'surreal, singular, and deeply moving' - RHETT DAVIS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atticus Bookshop Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48338856083705,"sku":"9781761770142","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/4535\/6025\/files\/9781761770142.jpg?v=1777606516","url":"https:\/\/www.atticusbooksandart.com.au\/products\/henry-goes-bush","provider":"Atticus Bookshop Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}