{"product_id":"packer-and-sons-9781760626488","title":"Packer and Sons","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tommy Murphy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Currency Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Currency Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Australian \u0026amp; Oceanian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Packer believes you want to be him. 'I recognise that the vast majority of people would swap places with me and I wouldn't swap places with with anyone.' Is he right?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the origin story of the Packer prince told over three generations of tycoons who each battle to inherit their gargantuan birthright and drag it into a new era. \u003cem\u003ePacker \u0026amp; Sons \u003c\/em\u003eis about the family who told Australia how to think, how to relax, how to be - and the knowledge that was passed from father to son - wisdom, acumen, politics. But also, how to forge your body-armour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTommy Murphy (\u003cem\u003eMark Colvin's Kidney, Strangers in Between, Gwen in Purgatory \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHolding the Man\u003c\/em\u003e) is his generation's great theatre chronicler of the mess that is contemporary Australia. His writing covers vast terrain - the nature of power, who owns the truth, how our society shifts its plate tectonics. Packer \u0026amp; Sons is also a play of intense detail, and the quiet moments when powerful men pass lore to tomorrow's kings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis landmark theatrical event takes aim at patriarchal power, the catastrophe of entitlement and the greed that pervades Australian life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46456470044823,"sku":"9781760626488","price":1451.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781760626488.webp?v=1769178626","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/packer-and-sons-9781760626488","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}