{"product_id":"the-horrible-paws-d-h-lawrences-australian-nightmare-paperback","title":"The Horrible Paws: D.H. Lawrence's Australian Nightmare - 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\u003eRobert Darroch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Australia in 1922, novelist DH Lawrence had a number of nightmares that were to haunt his novel, \u003cem\u003eKangaroo\u003c\/em\u003e, which he started writing in the coastal village of Thirroul in May, and completed in Taos in America four months later. The most famous one provided a chapter (\"The Nightmare\") in his Australian novel, touched off by a scarifying encounter with the leader of the secret army Lawrence ran across in Sydney. \"It was as if the silvery freedom suddenly turned, and showed the scaly back of a reptile, and the horrible paws\", he wrote. Those blood-caked paws were not only the metaphorical extremities of the sinister organisation he had stumbled on in Australia, but the unwelcome attentions of its \"bear-like\" secret army leader, portrayed in the novel as Benjamin Cooley. For, hidden in the text of \u003cem\u003eKangaroo\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert Darroch has discovered a hitherto unrecognised homoerotic encounter that, paradoxically, gives the lie to accusations of homosexual tendencies in probably the 20th-century's most misunderstood author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52448896287027,"sku":"9780994615565","price":40.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QjF4UU1hQjIxU2pQbGRiNWhpR253dz09.webp?v=1759046217","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-horrible-paws-d-h-lawrences-australian-nightmare-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}