{"product_id":"vera-vera-vera-hayley-squires-9781408172711","title":"Vera Vera Vera","description":"The boy who comes back from a war far away in a wooden box is glorified and called a hero. As the funeral plans are made in a small Kent town, his siblings squabble over who he was. Maybe the fanfare isn't needed for this heroic martyr.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVera Vera Vera\u003c\/i\u003e is a blackly comic play about what we are willing to fight for. Her first work for the theatre, Hayley Squires is a bracing new voice, clear eyed and loud, looking at violence, neglect and apathy. Depicting a gritty slice of social realism, \u003ci\u003eVera Vera Vera\u003c\/i\u003e portrays the disjunction between the lives of the surviving family against the memories and patriotic commemoration for the dead. Looking at drug addiction, crime, verbal and domestic abuse, engrained racism, the characters' downtrodden and trapped lives are exposed with honesty and verve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis brave and uncompromising play questions both the validity of the myth of the martyred soldier and the true worth of survival for those left behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hayley Squires\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1408172712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781408172711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.16d","brand":"Hayley Squires","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47039870730495,"sku":"9781408172711","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dfb93a73-e5fb-4432-b85b-a884de5b715e.jpg?v=1752752823","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vera-vera-vera-hayley-squires-9781408172711","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}