{"product_id":"9781780016696","title":"Holding the Man (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on the award-winning memoir by Timothy Conigrave, and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, \u003cem\u003eHolding the Man\u003c\/em\u003e tells a remarkable true-life love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are secretly gay in an all-male school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgainst the odds, Tim and John develop a relationship that, for fifteen years, survives everything life throws at it - the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses - until the only problem that love can’t solve turns up to part them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Tommy Murphy is a bewitching playwright of startling originality’ - Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, Artistic Directors of Sydney Theatre Company\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'fresh, frank and funny... a wrenchingly moving love story I defy anyone with a pulse not to relate to' - \u003cem\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Compelling, wrenching… unflinching, devastating, moving and funny’ - \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47301009113328,"sku":"9781780016696","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780016696_p0.jpg?v=1763711519","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780016696","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}