{"product_id":"the-great-wasting-plus-two-other-short","title":"The Great Wasting (plus Two Other Short By Clegg, John M","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57836590006654,"sku":"NW9781836155997","price":13.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/the-great-wasting-plus-two-other-short","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}