Name: Turning
SKU: 51346365
Price: 13.78 EUR
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Author: Tim Winton

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Physical Book

Author

Tim Winton

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Synopsis "Turning "

In these extraordinary tales about ordinary people from ordinary places, Tim Winton describes turnings of all kinds: second thoughts, changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, abrupt transitions. The seventeen stories overlap to paint a convincing and cohesive picture of a world where people struggle against the terrible weight of their past and challenge the lives they have made for themselves. Tim Winton is indisputably one of the finest storytellers working in the English language. Now he gives us seventeen exquisite overlapping tales of second thoughts and mid-life regret - extraordinary stories of ordinary people from ordinary places. Here are turnings of all kinds - changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours - where people struggle against the terrible weight of the past and challenge the lives they've made for themselves.

Tim Winton

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(1960, Perth, Australia) is the author of an extensive body of work translated worldwide. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has received the Miles Franklin Award four times for Shallows (1984), Cloudstreet (1991), Dirt Music (2001), and Breath (2008; Asteroid Books, 2024) and has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize for his novels The Riders (1994) and Dirt Music. He lives in Western Australia.

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