Simpson returns / by Wayne Macauley
- Bib ID:
- 8036850
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Macauley, Wayne, author
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2019
- ©2019
- 136 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925773507 (paperback)
- Summary:
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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 countrys 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 societys 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.
- Notes:
- Cover subtitle: A novella.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Simpson returns : a novella
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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