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'One morning, without warning, our narrator wakes into a nightmare. He and his female companion are placed 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 of cultural workers.
'They are put into groups, set their tasks. Their meals are served to them on trestle tables in the middle of the ground. Entangled in a contract of mutual obligation, they are passive in their herding and their handouts.
'Then the narrator 'escapes', to an abandoned school in a big country town. It is here, unexpectedly, that a sparkling, if muted, transfiguration takes place.
'Caravan Story is both satire and lyric. Exploring between the lines the bigger questions of our culture it takes us on a strange and provocative journey. And with Macauley's inexorable narrative logic, we simply cannot put it down.'
'They are put into groups, set their tasks. Their meals are served to them on trestle tables in the middle of the ground. Entangled in a contract of mutual obligation, they are passive in their herding and their handouts.
'Then the narrator 'escapes', to an abandoned school in a big country town. It is here, unexpectedly, that a sparkling, if muted, transfiguration takes place.
'Caravan Story is both satire and lyric. Exploring between the lines the bigger questions of our culture it takes us on a strange and provocative journey. And with Macauley's inexorable narrative logic, we simply cannot put it down.'
(Publication summary)
Source: Black Pepper Publishing website, http://members.dodo.com.au/~ghannah/ (Sighted 11/07/2007)Notes
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Dedication: For D
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Epigraph: ...I no longer know where irony ceases and heaven begins...
Heinrich Heine, The Harz Journey
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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What I’m Reading
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2019; -
Untitled
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Inscribe , Summer no. 7 2013; (p. 4)
— Review of Caravan Story 2006 single work novella -
Canon Fire
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 September 2012; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Caravan Story 2006 single work novella ; Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe 2004 single work novella -
The Space between Things
Emmett Stinson
(interviewer),
2011
single work
interview
— Appears in: Antithesis , no. 21 2011; (p. 166-169) -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 298 2008; (p. 20)
— Review of Caravan Story 2006 single work novella
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Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Monthly , July no. 25 2007; (p. 65)
— Review of Caravan Story 2006 single work novella -
Macauley on the Road Again
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 August 2007; (p. 25)
— Review of Caravan Story 2006 single work novella -
Ebb and Flow of Everyday Life Made New
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 December 2007; (p. 13)
— Review of Caravan Story 2006 single work novella ; The Invention of Everyday Life 2007 single work novel -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 298 2008; (p. 20)
— Review of Caravan Story 2006 single work novella -
Canon Fire
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 September 2012; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Caravan Story 2006 single work novella ; Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe 2004 single work novella -
The Space between Things
Emmett Stinson
(interviewer),
2011
single work
interview
— Appears in: Antithesis , no. 21 2011; (p. 166-169) -
What I’m Reading
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2019;
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