Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe

By: Wayne Macauley

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Paperback | 25 July 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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.

Industry Reviews

`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 *
` [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 *
`A salutary fable about the horrors awaiting our disaffected modern citizenry... lasting visual images and resonant symbolism.' * Sydney Morning Herald *
`Bewitching... ethereal... hallucinatory...In an era when many Australian novelists are playing it safe... Wayne Macauley is an ambitious talent worth watching.' * Wet Ink *
`Tapping the hidden heart of a different Australia...this is original Australian writing at its best.' * Courier-Mail *

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