Island home : a landscape memoir / Tim Winton
- Bib ID:
- 7288913
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Winton, Tim, 1960-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- ©2015
- [Melbourne, Victoria] : Penguin Australia Pty Ltd, 2015
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- ISBN:
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- 1760142239 (EPUB : :)
- 9781760142230 (EPUB : :)
- Summary:
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'I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is as much a living presence as any character. What is true of his work is also true of his life: from boyhood, his relationship with the world around him - rockpools, seacaves, scrub and swamp - was as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets of the south-east, walking in the high rocky desert fringe, diving at Ningaloo Reef, bobbing in the sea between sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, with its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance, and learned to see landscape as a living process. Island Home is the story of how that relationship with the Australian landscape came to be, and how it has determined his ideas, his writing and his life. It is also a passionate exhortation for all of us to feel the ground beneath our feet. Much more powerfully than a political idea, or an economy, Australia is a physical entity. Where we are defines who we are, in ways we too often forget to our detriment, and the country's. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted - Island Home is not just a brilliant, moving insight into the life and art of one of our finest writers, but a compelling investigation into the way our country makes us who we are. 'Tim Winton's delicately meandering new collection of writing about place and being again raises literature's repeated assertion: in the face of the ineffable the only valid response is an aesthetic one . . . Island Home is a beautiful example of that aesthetic response to the glory and the mystery of nature.' William Yeoman, the West Australian 'Winton embraces everything that is good, bad and ugly about this continent and his commitment is contagious.' Herald Sun '[A] love letter to nature . . . Each of the places he takes us in Island Home hints at a different aspect of his own nature . . . Winton's unique alliance with nature allows him to become a mouthpiece for the strange temperament and volatile charm of an enormous island continent.'Listener (NZ) 'Island Home is a powerful and poetic read, an expression of his intense love of the land and the sea, and for Australia's unique flora and fauna.' Weekend Herald (NZ).
- Notes:
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- Imprint: e-penguin.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Print version record
- Subject:
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- Winton, Tim, 196
- Winton, Tim, 1960-
- Winton, Tim
- Authors -- Biography
- Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography
- Landscapes -- Australia
- Écrivains -- Biographies
- Paysages -- Australie
- Authors
- Autobiography: literary
- Landscapes
- Travel
- Australia -- Description and travel
- Australie -- Descriptions et voyages
- Australia
- Australian
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2015
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