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Blueprints for a Barbed Wire Canoe by Macauley, Wayne is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Blueprints for a Barbed Wire Canoe about?
'The rain fell hard and unending on the roof. All the ghosts of ur were sleeping. The night was as dark as a whale's belly. She passed by swiftly, cried out softly; I wasn't listening, I couldn't have heard.' Bram has a reluctant story to tell. Excavating common objects from the mullock heap of a failed housing estate, he records the lives fo those who lived there. One-eyed Michael, fencing contractor and ideologue, his daughter Jodie, Slug the real estate agent, Layland from the Ministry and Tony the these are just some of the players in a laconic comedy of circumstance. Prize-winning short fiction writer Wayne Macauley has made, as Peter Craven has noted, 'something almost like allegory.' His compulsive telling ensnares us in an escalating series of remarkable events. An old leather satchel holds the documents for the fatal vessel of the title... Beguilingly simple, eccentric and original, 'Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe' is a fable of ownership, and an elegy for a dream.
Who reads Blueprints for a Barbed Wire Canoe?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Macauley, Wayne
- Publisher
- Melbourne: Black Pepper
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781876044428
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.42 / 5 (44 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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