Name: Scission
Price: 14.89 EUR
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Author: Tim Winton
ISBN: 9780330412605

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tim Winton

Publisher

Picador

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780330412605

ISBN13

9780330412605

Scission

Tim Winton (Author) · Picador · Paperback

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Synopsis "Scission "

`Tim Winton is the real thing: a writer who can photograph a thought and pluck out the beat of a soul on a washing line' Scotland on Sunday In this, Tim Winton's first collection of short stories, the world he paints is often harsh and disturbing, inhabited by isolated, unforgiving characters. It is a world at once familiar, filled with the trappings of home and family, and yet also strangely twisted; a world where casual brutality and unexpected death are never far from the surface. Evident in a young girl's violent temper once the eggs she has so jealously guarded finally hatch, or in the careless indifference of the woman stepping over a soldier's spreadeagled body, Tim Winton's world is a place where dysfunction and disorder constantly threaten the equilibrium. But there is compassion and beauty there too - whether it's in the brush of a father's hand against his young son's cheek, or the neighbours who wait patiently to celebrate the arrival of a new baby. `Winton is boisterous and lyrical by turns; his sense of sentiment is unerringly accurate, his characters unforgettable. The emotional control exercised over his anarchic world puts Winton in the top drawer of Australian fiction' Daily Telegraph `Winton's compassionate and humorous writing is nothing short of magnificent. If you can imagine Neighbours taken over by the writing team of John Steinbeck and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, you're close' Time Out

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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