Name: the turning
SKU: 1819577
Price: 979.00 TWD
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Author: Tim Winton
ISBN: 9780743279796

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tim Winton

Publisher

Scribner

Language

English

Pages

317

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.6x1.9 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN

0743279794

ISBN13

9780743279796

Synopsis "the turning"

The author of Dirt Music and The Riders captures the urgency of memory and the way an entire life can be shaped by one event from the past in this capsule of connected stories set on the coast of Western Australia. Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds--changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world. With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not what they had hoped.

Tim Winton

(Author)

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(1960, Perth, Australia) is the author of an extensive body of work translated worldwide. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has received the Miles Franklin Award four times for Shallows (1984), Cloudstreet (1991), Dirt Music (2001), and Breath (2008; Asteroid Books, 2024) and has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize for his novels The Riders (1994) and Dirt Music. He lives in Western Australia.

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