{"product_id":"the-lockdown-tales-alan-whelan-9780228840534","title":"The Lockdown Tales: Disobedience, Love, Patience and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeven women and three men leave the city to avoid a pandemic. They isolate together in a local farm, where they pass the time working, flirting, eating, drinking, making music and above all telling stories. It happened in Florence in 1351, during the Plague, and gave us Boccaccio's Decameron.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven hundred years later, in Australia, it happens again. The stories are very different, but they're still bawdy, satirical, funny and sometimes sad, and they celebrate human cleverness, love, courage and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Alan Whelan brings us a clever, sensual and sometimes poignant collection of stories that would make Boccaccio proud\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eTangea Tansley, author of A Question of Belonging\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An old frame for a sharp new snapshot of contemporary Australia\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLeigh Swinbourne, author of Shadow in the Forest\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Whelan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0228840538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780228840534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tellwell Talent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Alan Whelan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48435286278399,"sku":"9780228840534","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4170ec5f-4a5b-4d07-bdd3-2912a7205a33.jpg?v=1777149435","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lockdown-tales-alan-whelan-9780228840534","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}