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Author Winton, Tim, author

Title Island home : a landscape memoir / Tim Winton
Published [Melbourne, Victoria] : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015
[Melbourne, VIC] : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015
©2015

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Description 239 pages ; 23 cm
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Summary 'I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is as much a living presence as any character. What is true of his work is also true of his life: from boyhood, his relationship with the world around him -- rockpools, sea caves, scrub and swamp -- was as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets of the south-east, walking in the high rocky desert fringe, diving at Ningaloo Reef, bobbing in the sea between sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, with its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance, and learned to see landscape as a living process. Island home is the story of how that relationship with the Australian landscape came to be, and how it has determined his ideas, his writing and his life. It is also a passionate exhortation for all of us to feel the ground beneath our feet. Much more powerfully than a political idea, or an economy, Australia is a physical entity. Where we are defines who we are, in ways we too often forget to our detriment, and the country's
Analysis Australian
Notes Scheduled to be published September 2015
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239)
Notes Shortlisted, Non-fiction, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2016
Shortlisted, The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award, Queensland Literary Awards, 2016
Subject Winton, Tim., 1960-
Winton, Tim, 1960- author
Winton, Tim.
Authors -- Biography.
Authors -- Australia -- Biography.
Authors, Australian -- Biography.
Authors -- Australia.
Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Landscapes -- Australia.
-- 20th century -- Biography
Australia -- Description and travel.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Short stories.
Autobiographies.
LC no. 2015462165
ISBN 1926428749
9781926428741
Other Titles Landscape memoir