Simpson Returns

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Summary: They are making their twenty-ninth, and perhaps final, attempt to find the country’s 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 society’s 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.‘Wayne Macauley is an Australian original.’ Saturday Paper /‘Macauley has published some of the most memorable fiction going in this country.’ Age

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Summary: They are making their twenty-ninth, and perhaps final, attempt to find the country’s 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 society’s 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.‘Wayne Macauley is an Australian original.’ Saturday Paper /‘Macauley has published some of the most memorable fiction going in this country.’ Age

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Simpson Returns Resource Information The item Simpson Returns represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.