Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe

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ISBN: 9781922079114

Wayne Macauley

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English

Text Publishing Company
25 July 2012

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A black comedy set in a new housing estate on the outskirts of Melbourne.

Bram and his fellow residents are drawn by a dream: the promise of a freeway leading to a new suburb north of the city. The houses are built, but the freeway never comes. One by one, the dreamers leave, until only a small, hardcore group is left—including Bram, One-eyed Michael, and Michael’s self-possessed daughter Jodie. As the disused houses crumble around them they barricade themselves in. They have a gun, a bulldozer, and a hellbent determination to stay till the end, whatever, whenever, that is. But the authorities have other ideas.

Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe, Wayne Macauley’s first novel, is a bitingly dark take on the great Australian dream. Fable-like, effortlessly readable and ultimately moving, it shows us in full measure the depth of Macauley’s talent.

By: Wayne Macauley
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 190g
ISBN: 9781922079114
ISBN 10: 1922079111
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 25 July 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wayne Macauley is the author of the novel Caravan Story and the short-fiction collection Other Stories.

Reviews for Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe

'A wry and deadpan assault on dreary and deluded town planners...Macauley hits the bullseye.' * Sunday Star Times * `Tapping the hidden heart of a different Australia...this is original Australian writing at its best.' * Courier-Mail * `Bewitching... ethereal... hallucinatory...In an era when many Australian novelists are playing it safe... Wayne Macauley is an ambitious talent worth watching.' * Wet Ink * `A salutary fable about the horrors awaiting our disaffected modern citizenry... lasting visual images and resonant symbolism.' * Sydney Morning Herald * ` [It was] like falling into a bail of barbed wire in the dark and fighting to get out till morning. The more I struggled, the more it got under my skin.' * The Bulletin * `Wayne Macauley has the soul of a poet and his surreal novella is stunningly written... Itis a satire of exquisite poise and confidence... If more Australian literature was of this calibre, we'd be laughing.' * Age *