{"product_id":"id-rather-not","title":"I'd Rather Not","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer life thwarted at every turn by beagles, bureaucrats, and ill-advised love affairs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe unlikely story of how a failed dishwasher, tour guide, cabinet maker, bus driver, bookseller and literary journal publisher became one of Australia's hottest humor essayists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis wryly subversive book of adventures (and misadventures) offers an original and utterly hilarious take on work, escape, and that something more we all need.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Skinner arrives in the city, searching for a richer life. Things begin badly and then, surprisingly, get slightly worse. Pretty soon he's sleeping rough and trying to run a literary magazine out of a dog park. His quest for meaning keeps being thwarted, by gainful employment, house parties, ill-advised love affairs, camel trips, and bureaucratic entanglements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's 14 essays\/stories can be savored one at a time, or binge read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert's distinctive voice possesses uncommon immediacy, at once humorous and soulful, self-effacing and wise. Perhaps most important of all, he is endlessly entertaining.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Inc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51468433817889,"sku":"9781760640354","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/9781760640354.jpg?v=1752126246","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/id-rather-not","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}