Simpson returns / by Wayne Macauley.
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2019.Description: 136 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781925773507
- Simpson returns : a novella
- A823.4 23
- PR9619.4.M232 S56 2019
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | MACA | Available | 069214 |
Cover subtitle: A novella.
Includes bibliographical reference.
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.