{"product_id":"drift-1","title":"Drift","description":"\u003cp\u003eJOHNSON, BYRON SHELLEY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePersonal: Born January 16, 1933, London, England; disappeared, presumed drowned.\u003cbr\u003eNovember 13, 1993; married Ainslie Ann Cracklewood, Marchioness; no children.\u003cbr\u003eEducation: BA (Hons) (Lond.).\u003cbr\u003eHome: Shepherd's Bush Rd., Hammersmith.\u003cbr\u003eCareer: Writer, film director and producer\u003cbr\u003eWritings: Thirteen novels; Somerset Maugham Award for Ironmask and Ultima Thule.\u003cbr\u003eSidelights: Attracted high praise, too often in the damned context of one who was\u003cbr\u003e'experimental\". Stubborn and unregenerate about the possibilities of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eB.S. Johnson is receiving disturbing letters from Tasmania.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey echo the past, howling\u003cbr\u003ewith ocean gales, salted and stinging with horrendous tales of aboriginal life in the\u003cbr\u003eearly nineteenth century. He responds by going there to find out for himself, entering\u003cbr\u003ethe world of sealers and whalers, of history and dreaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a mission for justice, yet at the same time trying to escape his own personal situation,\u003cbr\u003eJohnson finds that in Tasmania, mystery and coincidence are part of daily life. He discovers all too soon that while writing strives towards bending the truth, it is only within his own skull that the truth can be explored satisfactorily.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brian Castro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44170582950057,"sku":"9780855615703","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/drift.jpg?v=1715903581","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/drift-1","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}