Dirt Music
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330412278 (0330412272)
Publish date: April 4th 2003
Publisher: PICADOR (MACM)
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Music,
Australia
Tim Winton is one of my favourite Australian authors, a big claim considering I have only read a couple of his books. But it's the way he writes, the imagery he creates, the way he tackles his characters and can make you love them and hate them and most of all, understand them and identify with them...
I'm on a bit of a Tim Winton kick at the moment. For years after reading - and loving - "Cloudstreet". I ignored his work. Now it seems that I can't get enough of it. And yet, for some of the time I was listening to the audiobook version of this novel, I wasn't sure how I felt about it. It has every...
"The covers of this book are too far apart." — Ambrose Bierce
Bleak story of bleak characters in a bleak world that seemed very honest. Recommended.