The bridge

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  • Published 20061205
  • ISBN: 9780733319396
  • Extent: 266 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm)

And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution.

C.P. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians

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Wayne Macauley

Wayne Macauley is a Melbourne writer whose stories have been published in Meanjin, Westerly, Overland, Arena, HQand other magazines. His first novel was Blueprints for a...

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