Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe

✍ Scribed by Macauley, Wayne

• Book ID: 109142725
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 331 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781922079114

✦ Synopsis

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 the depth of Macauley's talent.

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.

Wayne Macauley is a Melbourne writer. He is the author of three highly acclaimed novels, Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe , Caravan Story and The Cook....