The turning : new stories / Tim Winton
- Bib ID:
- 3599031
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Winton, Tim, 1960-
- Edition:
- 1st Scribner ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Scribner, 2005
- 321 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0743276930
- 9780743276931
- Summary:
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"Tim Winton's collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds - changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolutions 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. Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not what they had hoped. Set on a coastal stretch of Western Australia, The Turning ranges in time from the seventies to the present. A few characters appear in several stories, gradually revealing themselves and the sources of their obsessions and rage. Yet these same broken lives often are illuminated and redeemed by nature, by the sheer magnificence of the Australian sky and sea." -- Book jacket.
- Full contents:
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- Big world
- Abbreviation
- Aquifer
- Damaged goods
- Small mercies
- On her knees
- Cockleshell
- The turning
- Sand
- Family
- Long, clear view
- Reunion
- Commission
- Fog
- Boner McPharlin's moll
- Immunity
- Defender.
- Subject:
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2005
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