Tim Winton, Author . Scribner $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2802-2
The stunning new narrative by Australian writer Winton (The Riders, nominated for the Booker), a tale of three characters' perilous journey into the Australian wilderness in efforts to escape and atone for their pasts, may just be his...
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Tim Winton, Author . Scribner $25 (321p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7693-1
Well-known in his native Australia and twice shortlisted for the Man Booker, Winton (Dirt Music
, etc.) is overdue for wider recognition in the U.S. This collection of linked stories showcases his strengths: memorable characters colliding with the...
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Tim Winton, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (217p) ISBN 978-0-374-11634-7
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This slender book packs an emotional wallop. Two thrill-seeking boys, Bruce and Loonie, are young teenagers in smalltown Australia, circa the early 1970s. Their attraction is focused on the water—ponds, rivers,...
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Tim Winton, Author Scribner Book Company $16 (384p) ISBN 978-0-684-82277-8
Australian novelist Winton's latest, in which a man takes his young daughter across Europe on a search for his missing wife, was a finalist for the Booker Prize. (June)
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Tim Winton, Author Atheneum Books $14.95 (153p) ISBN 978-0-689-11978-1
Beginning with his first novel, published when he was 21, the Australian author's works have all earned prizes; so too has this memorable collection of 14 stories, which won the Miles Franklin Award. The most intimate and sensitive of the tales...
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Tim Winton, Author Scribner Book Company $14 (96p) ISBN 978-0-684-84565-4
This thin volume doesn't aspire to the mature complexity of the talented Australian author's The Rider. Though the language is lyrical, Winton pares it down, deliberately simplifying his prose in the service of a clearly articulated call for...
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Tim Winton, Author Atheneum Books $14.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-689-11869-2
Australian author Winton, at age 26, has won his country's highest awards and critics' acclaim for An Open Swimmer and Shallows. His third novel is narrated by 10-year-old Morton (Ort) Flack in a distinctive voice that holds the reader's attention...
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Tim Winton, Author Little Brown and Company $13.95 (148p) ISBN 978-0-316-94753-4
Moving to Australia's East Coast from Perth makes 14-year-old Lockie an outsider and a city boy--an identity worsened by the fact that his father is a cop and the family lives on the wrong side of the tracks. Still, between smart-mouthing in school,
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Tim Winton, Author Graywolf Press $20 (426p) ISBN 978-1-55597-158-8
``Luck don't change, love,'' observes Sam Pickles to his daughter Rose. ``It moves.'' Considerations of fate and love underlie Winton's ( Shallows ) wry novel, set in Western Australia, about two families thrown together in the years following WW II.
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Tim Winton, Author Scribner Book Company $23 (377p) ISBN 978-0-684-80296-1
Elements of a psychological suspense thriller and a gut-wrenching love story blend into this irresistible narrative, Winston's 13th novel, written in supple, lyrically charged prose. Australian expatriate Scully is a working-class bloke with a ``wonk
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Tim Winton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-151348
Tom Keely, the 40-something central figure in Winton’s (Breath) beautifully written powerful ninth novel, is in the throes of a midlife crisis: once a well-known environmental activist, now he’s a “middle-class casualty,” sacked from his job and...
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Tim Winton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-26232-7
The latest from Winton (Breath) is a mournful and fast-paced journey into the life of a young man on his own. Left by himself after the death of his violent, hateful father, teenager Jaxie Clackton sets out deep into the empty saltlands of Western...
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