Synopsis
‘These stories are a wonderful introduction to his quirky fictional world – gutsy, funny, lyrical but unpretentious.' – Independent
Tim Winton’s second short-story collection explores the complexity of human relationships through the themes of futility and hope, revenge and redemption, birth and death that twist through each tale in turn, emerging, re-emerging, competing, conflicting. As characters, too, surface and reappear,...
Details
27 June 2011144 pages
9780330526753Imprint: Picador
Reviews
These stories are a wonderful introduction to his quirky fictional world – gutsy, funny, lyrical but unpretentious.Independent
Winton . . . writes with a muscular looseness which is suited perfectly to the people and places he is describing.The Times
Tim Winton has cracked something essential about modern Australia: how to find meaning in the intimate and terrible parts of contemporary family life, set against a landscape which is inhumanly vast.Evening Standard
The vividness and clarity that Mr Winton responds to in nature are also beautifully embodied in his own writing.The Economist
