Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir

Tim Winton

ISBN 10: 1447203097 / ISBN 13: 9781447203094

Edité par Picador, 2014

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• Titre: Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir
• Éditeur: Picador
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1447203097
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781447203094
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: very_good

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Synopsis

On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton’s days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun and surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled with mirages and the wind came in from the ocean, he was driven inside, to books. In the ‘simple, peculiar shack’ that his family borrowed each year there was a small library: a room with four walls of books, a world unto itself.

Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir is a beautiful delicate memoir in which Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore – about diving, dunes, beachcombing – and the sense of being on the precarious, wondrous edge of things that haunts his novels. It is a book about the ebb and flow that became a way of life, and that shaped one of our finest writers.

‘Both a serial romantic and a truly gifted novelist’ - Mariella Frostrup, Mail on Sunday.

À propos de l?auteur

Tim Winton has published thirty books for adults and children. His work has been widely translated and adapted for film, television, stage and radio. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). In 2023 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to environmental advocacy. He lives in Western Australia.