{"product_id":"2940016177434","title":"Kangaroo Author: D.H. Lawrence","description":"A bunch of workmen were lying on the grass of the park beside Macquarie\u003cbr\u003eStreet, in the dinner hour. It was winter, the end of May, but the sun\u003cbr\u003ewas warm, and they lay there in shirt-sleeves, talking. Some were eating\u003cbr\u003efood from paper packages. They were a mixed lot--taxi-drivers, a group\u003cbr\u003eof builders who were putting a new inside into one of the big houses\u003cbr\u003eopposite, and then two men in blue overalls, some sort of mechanics.\u003cbr\u003eSquatting and lying on the grassy bank beside the broad tarred road\u003cbr\u003ewhere taxis and hansom cabs passed continually, they had that air of\u003cbr\u003eowning the city which belongs to a good Australian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes, from the distance behind them, came the faintest squeal of\u003cbr\u003esinging from out of the \"fortified\" Conservatorium of Music. Perhaps it\u003cbr\u003ewas one of these faintly wafted squeals that made a blue-overalled\u003cbr\u003efellow look round, lifting his thick eyebrows vacantly. His eyes\u003cbr\u003eimmediately rested on two figures approaching from the direction of the\u003cbr\u003econservatorium, across the grass-lawn. One was a mature, handsome,\u003cbr\u003efresh-faced woman, who might have been Russian. Her companion was a\u003cbr\u003esmallish man, pale-faced, with a dark beard. Both were well-dressed, and\u003cbr\u003equiet, with that quiet self-possession which is almost unnatural\u003cbr\u003enowadays. They looked different from other people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA smile flitted over the face of the man in the overalls--or rather a\u003cbr\u003egrin. Seeing the strange, foreign-looking little man with the beard and\u003cbr\u003ethe absent air of self-possession walking unheeding over the grass, the\u003cbr\u003eworkman instinctively grinned. A comical-looking bloke! Perhaps a\u003cbr\u003eBolshy.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081141272816,"sku":"2940016177434","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016177434_p0.jpg?v=1763630682","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016177434","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}