Caravan Story

Caravan Story is a brilliant satire on the role of the artistic community in our society and the changing response of the government to their role. 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... Wayne Macauley is a Melbourne writer. He is the author of three highly-acclaimed novels, Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe, Caravan Story and The Cook. waynemacauley.com textpublishing.com.au 'A delicacy and wryness, a sort of tough...