The Turning
Stories
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On Sale:
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07/09/2006
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Formats:
Trade paperback | E-Book
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From the internationally acclaimed, Booker-shortlisted author
of Dirt Music and The Riders comes a mesmerizing collection
of overlapping stories set in small-town Western Australia. These
searing and evocative stories examine the frailty of ordinary
people and illuminate the turnings in life—the sudden detours,
awkward awakenings and mid-life regrets—where each character
must face the realization that the past always lives on in the
present. This portrait of a starkly beautiful landscape and the
characters that people it is a perfect mirror for Winton’s remarkable
imagination.
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Author Extras
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Breath
We talked about skill and courage and luck—we shared all that, and in time we surfed to fool with death—but for me there was still the outlaw feeling of doing something graceful, as if dancing on water was the best and bravest thing a man could do. —From Breath The Times (UK) said...
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