{"product_id":"dancing-bear-paperback","title":"Dancing Bear - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith Dewhurst\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, 1980s. It's colourful and fast. It's also dangerous if you've got no money and don't know where to go. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it's a changing city. A city of contrasts: big money being poured into big dreams by men in sharp suits and fast cars. Alongside the developers, politicians vie for glory and think their moment has come. And on the same streets overlooked by their penthouses, lives are lost and homelessness grows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFighting to find herself in this vivid new world is \u003cstrong\u003eClaudia \u003c\/strong\u003eand her alter ego, \u003cstrong\u003eBunty\u003c\/strong\u003e. The bailiffs are after her, she's broke but not beaten: the big time still beckons and \u003cstrong\u003eClaudia \u003c\/strong\u003ehasn't quite lost sight of her acting dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile young \u003cstrong\u003eWozzer \u003c\/strong\u003earrives in the city's crazy midst. A stranger to the streets, he's lost his home but not his starpilot heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cstrong\u003eClaudia \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eWozzer's \u003c\/strong\u003epaths cross at London's Camelot restaurant, \u003cstrong\u003eClaudia \u003c\/strong\u003erecognises a fellow lost soul in need and invites \u003cstrong\u003eWozzer \u003c\/strong\u003eto stay. An unlikely friendship blossoms that will underscore their chaotic, heady lives for years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor \u003cstrong\u003eKeith Dewhurst\u003c\/strong\u003e spent a good deal of his life divided between London and Sydney, Australia. He returned to the UK at the end of the 1980s after a five year absence, finding himself surprised and confused by how much the country had changed. In an effort to come to terms with those changes, Dancing Bear began to emerge, and was written over the course of the next thirty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cautionary, contemporary tale of small epic lives played out over three decades as one millennium ends and another begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 274\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48330102800633,"sku":"9780957182943","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/W2c6JhLkJI9780957182943.webp?v=1777367084","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/dancing-bear-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}