{"product_id":"great-wasting-plus-two-other-short-stories","title":"Great Wasting (plus two other short stories)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Great Wasting is an investigative tale, that follows a slender thread back to the early 1900's in the West Sierran foothills, USA, where a story is unearthed that some may take as a parable, regarding a medical intervention that was recently rushed onto the market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany will applaud the parody, but undoubtedly many more will feel somewhat affronted. Then when you consider a sprinkling of 'theys' and wokes has been stirred in, plus the fact many treated the 'safe and effective' narrative as a quasi-religion, there could be cause for great seething, with the most outraged having lost sight of the fact---- it's only a story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second short tale, 'I give myself to you,' is a quest for survival set in Mid-Europe, 39,000 BC, that throws fresh light on why our Neanderthal cousins became extinct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third tale, 'A mathematical incentive,' set in the late 1950's England, manages to be both naïve and suggestive, telling what befalls a young innocent as he passes into the confusing world of adolescence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57260950487384,"sku":"9781836155997","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781836155997.jpg?v=1778391990","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/great-wasting-plus-two-other-short-stories","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}