The Turning
eBook - ePub

The Turning

Stories

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Turning

Stories

About this book

The author of Dirt Music and The Riders captures the urgency of memory and the way an entire life can be shaped by one event from the past in this capsule of connected stories set on the coast of Western Australia.

Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds—changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken.

Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world.

With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not what they had hoped.

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Information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9780743279796
eBook ISBN
9780743298773

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1: Big World
  7. Chapter 2: Abbreviation
  8. Chapter 3: Aquifer
  9. Chapter 4: Damaged Goods
  10. Chapter 5: Small Mercies
  11. Chapter 6: On Her Knees
  12. Chapter 7: Cockleshell
  13. Chapter 8: The Turning
  14. Chapter 9: Sand
  15. Chapter 10: Family
  16. Chapter 11: Long, Clear View
  17. Chapter 12: Reunion
  18. Chapter 13: Commission
  19. Chapter 14: Fog
  20. Chapter 15: Boner McPharlin’s Moll
  21. Chapter 16: Immunity
  22. Chapter 17: Defender
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. About the Author