3 books by Wayne Macauley
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Overview: Wayne Macauley is the author of the highly acclaimed novels: Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe, Caravan Story and, most recently, The Cook, which was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award. His new book Demons will be available in August 2014. He lives in Melbourne.
Genre: Australian Contemporary Fiction
Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe
"The rain fell hard and unending on the roof. All the ghosts of ur were sleeping. The night was as dark as a whale’s belly. She passed by swiftly, cried out softly; I wasn’t listening, I couldn’t have heard."Bram has a reluctant story to tell. Excavating common objects from the mullock heap of a failed housing estate, he records the lives of those who lived there. One-eyed Michael, fencing contractor and ideologue, his daughter Jodie, Slug the real estate agent, Layland from the Ministry and Tony the bricklayer-in-waiting: these are just some of the players in a laconic comedy of circumstance.Prize-winning short fiction writer Wayne Macauley has made, as Peter Craven has noted, ‘something almost like allegory.’ His compulsive telling ensnares us in an escalating series of remarkable events. An old leather satchel holds the documents for the fatal vessel of the title.A beguilingly simple, eccentric and original novel, "Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe" is a fable of ownership, and an elegy for a dream.
Caravan Story
One morning, without warning, our narrator wakes into a nightmare. He and his female companion are put in a caravan and driven to a football oval in a faraway country town. There they join scores of other caravan-dwellers in a seemingly closed community. They are divided into groups, given their tasks. Then our narrator ‘escapes’, to an abandoned school in a big country town…
Wayne Macauley has a gift for storytelling. He can, and cannot but help, spin a yarn. It is this continual shifting on of our attention through the description of the particulars of a scene that gives his writing such a weird intensity. Examining the darker side of our manufacture and manipulation of culture, Caravan Story is a deeply unsettling and at times hilarious read. With Macauley’s inexorable narrative logic we are held in its thrall until the sparkling, if muted, transfiguration of its ending.
The Cook
A delicious satire of our contemporary obsession with food, cooking and fine dining, The Cook is a wild and darkly funny novel.
Zac, a teenage boy with a difficult past, throws himself into the world and work of haute cuisine but when sweet turns sour, his mind turns from first-class service to revenge. Published to rave reviews in the UK, Australia.
—At seventeen Zac is given a choice: either go to a young offenders’ institute, or enrol in a rehabilitation scheme – a course that teaches juveniles how to cook. He makes his choice. He chooses to cook. He also chooses to succeed. Whatever it takes.
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