The Turning

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 336 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Each of the overlapping stories in Tim Wintons The Turning centres on a transformation; together they form the bestselling Australian collection of the last three decades.Tim Wintons characters are people were familiar with - their struggles and small triumphs are our own. Here they change in ways that are sometimes vast, sometimes indistinct, but every story illuminates things we take for granted. Even as some of these lives turn from expansive hope to defeated middle-age, theres a sense of greater possibility, fuelled by the great turning of time itself.Now a major film starring Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Rose Byrne. The writing is frankly brilliant . . . Winton shows us how startling ordinary life is. And he does it in a way thats more amazing than if he had shown a ghost shimmering on the page. Boston Globe Each of these seventeen stories is a self-contained whole . . . yet the sequence reveals striking connections among seemingly disparate lives and experiences. The result is at times mysterious, moving and occasionally deeply unsettling. Sydney Morning Herald Winton is a poet of baffled souls . . . To read him is to be reminded not just of the possibilities of fiction but of the human heart. The Times Industry Reviews To read him is to be reminded not just of the possibilities of fiction but of the human heart. The Times Each of these 17 stories is a self-contained whole - as all good short stories should be - yet the sequence reveals striking connections among seemingly disparate lives and experiences. The result is at times mysterious, moving and occasionally deeply unsettling ...A memorable book and a fine achievement. - Sydney Morning Herald The writing is frankly brilliant ...Winton shows us how startling ordinary life is. And he does it in a way thats more amazing than if he had shown a ghost shimmering on the page. - Boston Globe

ISBN: 9780143568834