{"product_id":"9781925410921","title":"Wake In Fright: Film Tie-In","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe controller stood back. \u003cbr\u003e ‘Right,’ he said. ‘Spin \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eem!’ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e The man flipped the piece of wood and the coins spun up into the air above his head and dropped down on to the carpet. \u003cbr\u003e There was silence. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWake in Fright\u003c\/i\u003e tells the tale of John Grant’s journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenneth Cook\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Sydney. \u003ci\u003eWake in Fright\u003c\/i\u003e, which drew on  his time as a journalist in Broken Hill, was first published in 1961  when Cook was thirty-two. It was published in England and America,  translated into several languages, and a prescribed text in schools.  Cook wrote twenty-one books in a variety of genres, and was well known  in film circles as a scriptwriter and independent film-maker. He died in  1987 at the age of fifty-seven. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eWake in Fright \u003c\/i\u003edeserves its status as a modern classic. Cook’s prose is masterful and the story is gripping from the first page to the last.’ \u003cb\u003eM.J. Hyland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A classic novel which became a classic film. The Outback without the  sentimental bulldust. Australia without the sugar coating.’ \u003cb\u003eRobert Drewe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A true dark classic of Australian literature.’ \u003cb\u003eJ.M. Coetzee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eWake in Fright\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of the ugly side of Menzies’  Australia, its brutality, its drunkenness, its anxiety to crush all  sensibility. All of this is harrowingly reacorded —the destruction of a  young soul fresh to Australia—in Kenneth Cook’s remarkable novel.’ \u003cb\u003eThomas Keneally\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141114216688,"sku":"9781925410921","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925410921_p0.jpg?v=1763634489","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925410921","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}