Un mari délaissé, ivre de rage, ouvre le feu sur sa femme car il la sait heureuse sans lui. Une jeune fille voit l'arrivée de son beau-père d'un oeil inquiet. Pour contrer l'angoisse, elle a un secret : au fond du jardin, elle protège un oeuf de poule, attendant patiemment son éclosion. Subtiles et émouvantes, les treize histoires qui composent Scission évoquent ces moments où tout vacille, où l'équilibre précaire que chacun tente de construire se trouve menacé. Plus connu pour ses romans, Tim Winton s'impose comme un nouvelliste de talent, dans la lignée de John Cheever ou de Raymond Carver.
Tim Winton est né en 1960 à Perth en Australie occidentale. Traduit dans le monde entier, il a obtenu de nombreuses récompenses dans son pays. Il est l'auteur, aux Editions Rivages, de La Femme égarée, Par-dessus le bord du monde ou Cloudstreet.
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Vendeur : Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, Australie
Paperback. [Author], Penguin Books Ltd. The book titled Scission by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title. Paperback. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780140080605-SECONDHAND
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Vendeur : Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australie
Pictorial Wraps. Etat : Very Good. Reprint. Tim Winton's first collection of stories. Printed in Australia. Slight shelfwear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 155pp. SB-4. N° de réf. du vendeur 029685
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Vendeur : Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australie
Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. A firm clean straight book. N° de réf. du vendeur 037170
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Vendeur : Barclay Books, York, WA, Australie
Paperback. '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 García Márquez, you're close' Time Out 1985. First edition. A very good, clean copy only marked by light rubbing of the edges of the wraps and light age tanning of the pages. A very nice copy of the true First edition. N° de réf. du vendeur 9145713
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Vendeur : Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australie
Soft Cover. Etat : VG. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased); pp. [viii (last blank)], 156 (last blank), [4 (pubs. advts., last blank)]. A very good copy of the author's uncommon third book, a collection of short stories. N° de réf. du vendeur 037449
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