Tim Winton

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781571319586

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Island Home by Tim Winton Pdf

The writer explores his beloved Australia in a memoir that is “a delight to read [and] a call to arms . . . It beseeches us to revere the land that sustains us” (Guardian). From boyhood, Tim Winton’s relationship with the world around him?rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp?has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, and learned to see landscape as a living process. In Island Home, Winton brings this landscape?and its influence on the island nation’s identity and art?vividly to life through personal accounts and environmental history. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted?in language as unexpected and wild as the landscape it describes?Island Home is a brilliant, moving portrait of Australia from one of its finest writers, the prize-winning author of Breath, Eyrie, and The Shepherd’s Hut, among other acclaimed titles.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509863860

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The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton Pdf

Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Most of all it is about what it takes to keep hope alive in a parched and brutal world. For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. And so Jaxie runs. There’s just one person in the world who understands him, but to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands of Western Australia. It is a place that harbours criminals and threatens to kill those who haven't reckoned with its hot, waterless vastness. This is a journey only a dreamer – or a fugitive – would attempt. 'A page-turning heartbreaker' – Emma Donoghue, author of Room.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443401401

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Breath by Tim Winton Pdf

Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran big-wave surfer, and his enigmatic wife, Eva, the two adults initiate the boys into forbidden worlds of peril, testing the boundaries of athleticism, friendship, sexuality and mortality. Breath is a story about the wildness of youth—the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don’t—and about learning to live with its passing.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743298773

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The Turning by Tim Winton Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Rutherford
Publisher : Pascal Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1740202317

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Cloudstreet by Tim Winton by Sarah Rutherford Pdf

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443431569

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Eyrie by Tim Winton Pdf

When you’re fighting to keep your head above water, how can you save someone else from drowning? Tim Winton is Australia’s most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record-holding four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among English-language novelists. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and new—always revealing the raw, instinctual drives that lure us together and rend us apart. In Eyrie, Winton crafts the story of Tom Keely, a man struggling to accomplish good in an utterly fallen world. Once an ambitious, altruistic environmentalist, Keely now finds himself broke, embroiled in scandal and struggling to piece together some semblance of a life. From the heights of his urban high-rise apartment, he surveys the wreckage of his life and the world he’s tumbled out of love with. And just before he descends completely into pills and sorrow, a woman from his past and her preternatural child appear, perched on the edge of disaster, desperate for help. As Keely slips into a nightmarish world of con artists, drug dealers, petty violence and extortion, Winton confronts the cost of benevolence and creates a landscape of uncertainty. Eyrie is a thrilling and vertigo-inducing morality tale, at once brutal and lyrical, from one of our finest story tellers.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476797342

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The Riders by Tim Winton Pdf

An exploration of marriage and the rich relationship that can exist between father and daughter, The Riders is a gorgeously wrought novel from the award-winning author Tim Winton. After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind up in Ireland, and on a mystical whim of Jennifer's, buy an old farmhouse which stands in the shadow of a castle. While Scully spends weeks alone renovating the old house, Jennifer returns to Australia to liquidate their assets. When Scully arrives at Shannon Airport to pick up Jennifer and their seven-year-old daughter, Billie, it is Billie who emerges—alone. There is no note, no explanation, not so much as a word from Jennifer, and the shock has left Billie speechless. In that instant, Scully's life falls to pieces. The Riders is a superbly written and a darkly haunting story of a lovesick man in a vain search for a vanished woman. It is a powerfully accurate account of marriage today, of the demons that trouble relationships, of resurrection found in the will to keep going, in the refusal to hold on, to stand still. The Riders is also a moving story about the relationship between a loving man and his tough, bright daughter.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330526715

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An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton Pdf

Winner of the Australian/Vogel Award for Best First Novel, Tim Winton's An Open Swimmer is a meditation on past and present, a story of madness and murder, and of the punishing yet redemptive qualities of both fire and water. A fishing trip marks the end of Jerra and Sean’s friendship, although once, when they were younger and more innocent, it would have seemed unbelievable that the bond between them – first forged by their fathers, and later sealed with their blood – could ever be broken. But growing up has meant growing apart, the differences between them widening, sharpening their teasing words into something crueller and less easy to forgive. ‘Winton’s writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics’ - Sunday Telegraph

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781742538068

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Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton Pdf

Complemented by the breathtaking photographs of Narelle Autio, Tim Winton's Land's Edge is a celebration of the coastal life and those who surrender themselves to it. On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life. In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore - about diving, dunes, beachcombing - and the sense of being on the precarious, wondrous edge of things that haunts his novels. 'In this record of a life-long love affair with the sea, Tim Winton's prose ripples, shimmers and surges with awe and respect for how the ocean has not only sustained him physically and emotionally but determined the very rhythms of his life.' Fiona Capp, The Age 'Winton's homage to the ocean and his childhood . . . A book to return to again and again.' Matt Condon, Sun Herald 'A love letter to the beach, an enchanting celebration of life on the edge.' Sydney Morning Herald

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1035038935

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Cloudstreet by Tim Winton Pdf

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 'Magnificent' - The New York Times 'Winton is just one of the best' - Independent Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's epic family drama, a story of love and turmoil spanning decades. No. 1 Cloudstreet: a broken-down house on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories, with shudders and shadows and spirits. From separate catastrophes, two families - the Pickles and the Lambs - flee to the city and find themselves thrown together, forced to start their lives afresh. As they roister and rankle, the place that began as a roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts. Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama, a twenty-year story of life and love, full of boisterous energy, joy and heartbreak. His vivid portrayal of the of the Australian landscape is nowhere more extraordinary than in this classic. 'Winton is a one-man band of genius' - The Los Angeles Times One of the many extraordinary books featured in the Picador Collection.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
ISBN : 1447202864

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Dirt Music by Tim Winton Pdf

Booker Prize nominee Tim Winton continues to astonish critics and captivate readers with this Australian love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781509816965

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The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton Pdf

Eclectic and impassioned, a collection that affirms the power of the written word.' – Observer The Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man. In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how moments from his childhood and life growing up have shaped his views on class, faith, fundamentalism, the environment, and – most pressingly – how all his experiences have made him a writer. From unexpected links between car crashes and faith, surfing and writing, to the story of his upbringing in the changing Australian landscape, The Boy Behind the Curtain is an impassioned, funny, joyous, astonishing collection of memories, and Winton's most personal book to date.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0369366662

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Blueback by Tim Winton Pdf

The final volume in the iconic Penguin Australian Children's Classics series, Blueback is a deceptively simple allegory about a boy who matures through fortitude, and finds wisdom by living in harmony with all forms of life. A beautiful distillation of Winton's art and concerns.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330528016

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That Eye, the Sky by Tim Winton Pdf

Tim Winton's That Eye, the Sky is a tale about a boy’s vision of the world beyond, and the blurry distinctions between the natural and supernatural. At twelve years old, Morton – Ort for short – is not quite a child, but not yet an adult; his isolated outback world is an intriguing combination of boyish innocence, adolescent confusion and burgeoning awareness. When his father is seriously injured in a car crash, however, that world is suddenly thrown into complete disarray and the whole family have to adjust. As Ort, his sister, mother and grandmother are struggling to come to terms with what has happened, a stranger appears in their midst. Preaching God’s word, Henry Warburton’s unexpected arrival seems eerily prescient, at a time when the family most need a helping hand, and Henry quickly makes himself indispensable. In fact, for Ort in particular, it is Henry’s presence, perhaps more even than his father’s accident, that brings the greatest change to his world. ‘The great strength of the novel is in the way the grotesque contrasts and parallels in human life are spread out, examined and accepted.’ – Los Angeles Times

Author : Lyn McCredden,Nathanael O'Reilly
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1742586066

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Tim Winton by Lyn McCredden,Nathanael O'Reilly Pdf

Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-331) and index.