{"product_id":"9781921961359","title":"Caravan Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaravan Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant satire on the role of the artistic community in our society and the changing response of the government to their role.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e  The first caravans arrive in a convoy. Wayne Macauley's narrator, Wayne Macauley, is in one of them. He's one of the artists removed from his home, given a new place to live and the chance to 'give back to society'. In his strange new community, housed on a footy oval in a faraway country town, he is given his task. To create and be useful. To be thankful for the opportunity. He decides he will not give in to his misgivings; he will write. Then he finds out about the rejection slips already written for the work he has yet to submit...\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eWayne Macauley\u003c\/b\u003e is a Melbourne writer. He is the author of three highly-acclaimed novels, \u003ci\u003eBlueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaravan Story\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cook\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'A delicacy and wryness, a sort of tough reversal of expectations, that relaxes the mind and sends it skidding on the thinnest ice of elegance...If Macauley is black he's satiny.' Peter Craven\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'In an era when many Australian novelists are playing it safe...Wayne Macauley is an ambitious talent worth watching.' \u003ci\u003eWet Ink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'Wayne Macauley's first novel, \u003ci\u003eBlueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe\u003c\/i\u003e, showed that a real talent had arrived and his second confirms the promise.' \u003ci\u003eAge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'Mixing elegy and whimsy, satire and black humour, language becomes pliant under Macauley's command.' \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'A lament but also a call to arms, \u003ci\u003eCaravan Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling piece of satire, a compulsively readable, extremely well-wrought Orwellian fable that I believe announces the arrival of Macauley as a major Australian writer.' \u003ci\u003eMonthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165380722928,"sku":"9781921961359","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921961359_p0.jpg?v=1763632687","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921961359","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}