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Island Home
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From boyhood, Tim Winton's relationship with the world around him?rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp?has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, and learned to see landscape as a living process. In
, Winton brings this landscape?and its influence on the island nation's identity and art?vividly to life through personal accounts and environmental history.
Wise, rhapsodic, exalted?in language as unexpected and wild as the landscape it describes?
is a brilliant, moving portrait of Australia from one of its finest writers, the prize-winning author of
,
, and
, among other acclaimed titles.
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Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communitiesAbout Tim Winton
has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel,
, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for
, and
) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for
and
). His fiction published in the United States includes
and
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014 and 2008) and
(Scribner, 2002). He lives in Western Australia.
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