The Turning: Stories
Set on a coastal stretch 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...
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Set on a coastal stretch 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780743279796 (0743279794)
Publish date: October 10th 2006
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Read by Marguerite - 20 short stories set in Western Australia. Bleaker than I normally read. Resonant of time of life and human impulses to connect. Winton's writing is wonderfully non-judgemental. Very impressive.
A collection of short stories. Started in summer of 2008, got halfway through, enjoyed immensely but put it down and went on to others.Now finished the last half in one go, tonight, August 7 2009. And I wonder what took me so long to come back to it. My god he is a wonderful and effortless writer....
What Alistair MacLeod did for Cape Breton in Island, Tim Winton has done for Western Australia in The Turning. This is not to say that Winton writes like MacLeod. He doesn't. But both writers have created story collections that bring to life the corner of the world they know best, and in a quietl...
I was quite taken aback by how much I liked this book. I'd never desired to read Winton before or since. Every time I pick up one of his books and flick through it, it says don't read me. This one, though, was a basic IQ test. I'd noticed the paperback in David Jones book department for $20. In the ...
16 years ago
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