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An Open Swimmer
Tim Winton
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Description for An Open Swimmer
Paperback. Winner of the Australian/Vogel Award for Best First Novel, this is at once a haunting and powerful exploration of the horrors and joys of adulthood Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176.
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330412582
SKU
V9780330412582
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Ref
99-50
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 ... Read more
Reviews for An Open Swimmer
Winton’s writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics.
Sunday Telegraph
His elegiac novels are uplifting and cathartic dissections of fractured men and women.
Independent
Winton has a fine ear for both intimate and monumental scales of drama.
Evening Standard
Sunday Telegraph
His elegiac novels are uplifting and cathartic dissections of fractured men and women.
Independent
Winton has a fine ear for both intimate and monumental scales of drama.
Evening Standard