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Land's Edge Tim Winton

Land's Edge By Tim Winton

Land's Edge by Tim Winton


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Summary

Tim Winton's homage to the ocean and his childhood is a magnificent celebration of life at its limits

Land's Edge Summary

Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton

On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton's days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun and surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled with mirages and the wind came in from the ocean, he was driven inside, to books. In the `simple, peculiar shack' that his family borrowed each year there was a small library: a room with four walls of books, a world unto itself.

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. It is a book about the ebb and flow that became a way of life, and that shaped one of our finest writers.

`Both a serial romantic and a truly gifted novelist' Mariella Frostrup, Mail on Sunday

About Tim Winton

Tim Winton has published over twenty books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into many different languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia.

Additional information

GOR003942994
9781447203117
1447203119
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
2012-03-29
128
N/A
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