Simpson Returns

✍ Scribed by Wayne Macauley

• Book ID: 100165909
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 114 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1925774317

✦ Synopsis

Ninety years after they were thought to have died heroically in the Great War, the stretcher-bearer Simpson and his donkey journey through country Victoria, performing minor miracles and surviving on offerings left at war memorials. They are making their twenty-ninth, and perhaps final, attempt to find the country's famed Inland Sea.

On the road north from Melbourne, Simpson and his weary donkey encounter a broke single mother, a suicidal Vietnam veteran, a refugee who has lost everything, an abused teenager and a deranged ex-teacher. These are society's downtrodden, whom Simpson believes can be renewed by the healing waters of the sea.

In Simpson Returns , Wayne Macauley sticks a pin in the balloon of our national myth. A concise satire of Australian platitudes about fairness and egalitarianism, it is timely, devastating and witheringly funny.

'Wayne Macauley is an Australian original.' **Saturday Paper /**

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