Tim Winton

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Land's Edge

A Coastal Memoir

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. 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). In 2023 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to environmental advocacy. He lives in Western Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International / Picador
• Main Market Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 149g
• ISBN-13: 9781447203094
• ISBN-10: 1447203097
• Artikelnr.: 39349234

Rezensionen

Winton's exhilarated eulogy to a life lived from boyhood to manhood by and on the beach . . . Imagine the ideal short memoir of a perfect long day lived between land, sky and sea; this is as good as it gets. The Times