Caravan Story

One  morning, without warning, our narrator wakes into a nightmare. He and his female companion are put 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. They are divided into groups, given their tasks. Then our narrator 'escapes', to an abandoned school in a big country town... Wayne Macauley has a gift for storytelling. He can, and cannot but help, spin a yarn. It is this continual...
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One  morning, without warning, our narrator wakes into a nightmare. He and his female companion are put 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. They are divided into groups, given their tasks. Then our narrator 'escapes', to an abandoned school in a big country town... Wayne Macauley has a gift for storytelling. He can, and cannot but help, spin a yarn. It is this continual shifting on of our attention through the description of the particulars of a scene that gives his writing such a weird intensity. Examining the darker side of our manufacture and manipulation of culture, CARAVAN STORY is a deeply unsettling and at times hilarious read. With Macauley's inexorable narrative logic we are held in its thrall until the sparkling, if muted, transfiguration of its ending.