Well-priced B format editions Author will be a guest of several major literary festivals in 2012 Online banner ads on literary websites Print advertising in literary publications Social media campaign Consumer marketing campaign including promotions and giveaways to run in literary magazines * Featured in the Text newsletters and on the Text website
A lament but also a call to arms, Caravan Story is a thrilling piece of satire, a compulsively readable, extremely well-wrought Orwellian fable that I believe announces the arrival of Macauley as a major Australian writer, one who definitely has something to say.
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- Well-priced B format editions Author will be a guest of several major literary festivals in 2012 Online banner ads on literary websites Print advertising in literary publications Social media campaign Consumer marketing campaign including promotions and giveaways to run in literary magazines Featured in the Text newsletters and on the Text website
A lament but also a call to arms, Caravan Story is a thrilling piece of satire, a compulsively readable, extremely well-wrought Orwellian fable that I believe announces the arrival of Macauley as a major Australian writer, one who definitely has something to say.
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A brilliant satire on the role of the artists in our society and the manipulation of culture.
The first caravans arrive in a convoy. Wayne Macauley’s narrator, Wayne Macauley, is in one of them. He’s one of the artists removed from his home, given a new place to live and the chance to ‘give back to society’. In his strange new community, housed on a footy oval in a faraway country town, he is given his task. To create and be useful. To be thankful for the opportunity. He decides he will not give in to his misgivings; he will write. Then he finds out about the rejection slips already written for the work he has yet to submit…
Critic Reviews
“'Wayne Macauley's first novel, Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe , showed that a real talent had arrived and his second confirms the promise.'”
‘A delicacy and wryness, a sort of tough reversal of expectations, that relaxes the mind and sends it skidding on the thinnest ice of elegance…If Macauley is black he’s satiny.' Peter Craven
‘In an era when many Australian novelists are playing it safe…Wayne Macauley is an ambitious talent worth watching.’ Wet Ink
‘Wayne Macauley’s first novel, Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe, showed that a real talent had arrived and his second confirms the promise.' Age
‘Mixing elegy and whimsy, satire and black humour, language becomes pliant under Macauley’s command.’ Australian Book Review
‘A lament but also a call to arms, Caravan Story is a thrilling piece of satire, a compulsively readable, extremely well-wrought Orwellian fable that I believe announces the arrival of Macauley as a major Australian writer.’ The Monthly
About the Author
Wayne Macauley is the author of three highly-acclaimed novels, Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe, Caravan Story and The Cook. He is a former winner of The Age short story competition and his short-fiction collection, Other Stories, was shortlisted for the 2011 QLD Premier’s Awards. He lives in Melbourne.
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