{"product_id":"9781780263946","title":"The Walk","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is 1987, two years after Live Aid and PR expert Adrian Burles, working with charity Africa Assist has a Big Idea that he thinks will keep Ethiopian hunger in the headlines and touch heartstrings (and purse strings) of people in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAided by Anne Chaffey, an experienced nurse who has worked at the famine frontline for many years, he locates a young, malnourished Afar man called Mujtabaa wandering alone in the desert and flies him back to London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world's media are then invited to witness a skeletal Mujtabaa making a week-long walk from Heathrow to a rally in Trafalgar Square. In fundraising terms, this us a great success—but the ethics of the exercise, the human impact on all concerned and the ultimate result are all profoundly to be questioned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Walk\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative and unsettling novel about the morality of charity, the media and public relations. Situated in one single week it explores how far you can go to prick the public conscience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Barry \u003c\/b\u003e was born in England, brought up in Scotland and now lives in Australia. He is the author of two other novels, \u003ci\u003eI Hate Martin Amis Et Al\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe All Fall Down\u003c\/i\u003e and has had many short stories published in literary journals. He was shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eAustralia Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 's Calibre essay prize. He has been a copywriter in both the UK and Australia and has also written three corporate books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Internationalist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056700801264,"sku":"9781780263946","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780263946_p0.jpg?v=1763712761","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780263946","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}