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ISBN | 9781925773507 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Bib. Info | 136 pages ; 21 cm |
Categories | PR - English literature |
Product Weight | 160 gms. |
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Ninety years after they were thought to have died heroically in the Great War, the stretcher-bearer Simpson and his donkey journey through country Victoria, performing minor miracles and surviving on offerings left at war memorials. They are making their twenty-ninth, and perhaps final, attempt to find the countrys 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 societys 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. Kirkpatrick, John Simpson, 1892-1915 -- Fiction. | Healing -- Fiction. | Donkeys -- Fiction. | Outcasts -- Australia -- Fiction. | Australian fiction. | Australian