The Turning

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Picador/Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: Reprint

Description: 317 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is some light tanning to pages. As Tender As They Are Confronting, These Elegant Short Stories Examine The Darkness And Frailty Of Ordinary People And Celebrate The Moments When The Light Shines Through.

Publishers Description: THE PAPERBACK OF THE BIGGEST-SELLING SHORT STORY COLLECTION IN AUSTRALIAS HISTORY! In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with seventeen overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia. 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 theyve made for themselves. Beautifully crafted, and as tender as they are confronting, these elegiac stories examine the darkness and frailty of ordinary people and celebrate the moments when the light shines through. From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere.

ISBN: 9780330422086