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'They were going to tell stories. Let's go away for the weekend, said Megan, and leave our phones behind and turn off the computers and television and stop time because time is moving too fast and soon we'll all be saying where the hell did our lives go? We'll cook some food and drink some wine and each tell a story.
'It is the middle of winter. Seven friends travel to a remote coastal beach house for the weekend. Without phones, internet or television, they sit around the fireplace, telling stories – each exposing the foibles of humankind. But as a storm rolls in and torrential rain cuts the party off from the outside world, it soon becomes clear that some secrets are best kept hidden.
'Demons is an extraordinary novel by one of Australia's great writers.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Dedication: For my sisters
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Epigraph: It holds, I replied, because all the stones ant to cave in at once... – Heinrich von Kleist, on observing an arch at Wurzburg.
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Works about this Work
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Review : Demons
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , October 2014; (p. 49)
— Review of Demons 2014 single work novel -
Well Read
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 August 2014; (p. 27)
— Review of The Snow Kimono 2014 single work novel ; Demons 2014 single work novel -
Macauley's Mix of Black and Gold
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 24 August 2014; (p. 17)
— Review of Demons 2014 single work novel -
Between the Lines
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 9-10 August 2014; (p. 21) -
The Devil Is in the Detail of Fireside Tales of Savagery
Lashing of Menace and Social Criticism
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 August 2014; (p. 25) The Canberra Times , 9 August 2014; (p. 22) The Age , 9 August 2014; (p. 25)
— Review of Demons 2014 single work novel
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Demons by Wayne Macauley Review – Pathos and Parody of Australia's Intellectual Left
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 24 July 2014;
— Review of Demons 2014 single work novel 'A group of friends gather at a remote spot for a weekend of storytelling, with Macauley treading the fine line between satire and sentiment.' -
The Unbearable Slightness of Being
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 July 2014; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Demons 2014 single work novel -
The Devil Is in the Detail of Fireside Tales of Savagery
Lashing of Menace and Social Criticism
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 August 2014; (p. 25) The Canberra Times , 9 August 2014; (p. 22) The Age , 9 August 2014; (p. 25)
— Review of Demons 2014 single work novel -
Macauley's Mix of Black and Gold
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 24 August 2014; (p. 17)
— Review of Demons 2014 single work novel -
Well Read
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 August 2014; (p. 27)
— Review of The Snow Kimono 2014 single work novel ; Demons 2014 single work novel -
Between the Lines
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 9-10 August 2014; (p. 21)