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Dirt Music - by Tim Winton (Paperback)

Dirt Music - by  Tim Winton (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Booker Prize nominee Tim Winton continues to astonish critics and captivate readers with this Australian love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Christina Stead Award, WA Premier's Book of the Year, Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award, Goodreading Award-Readers Choice Book of the Year</b> <p/>Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, <i>Dirt Music</i> tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman--a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, Fox grew melons and counted stars and loved playing his guitar. Now, his life has become a "project of forgetting." Not until he meets Georgie Jutland, the wife of White Point's most prosperous fisherman, does Fox begin to dream again and hear the dirt music--"anything you can play on a verandah or porch," he tells Georgie, "without electricity." Like the beat of a barren heart, nature is never silent. Ambitious and perfectly calibrated, <i>Dirt Music</i> resonates with suspense, emotion, and timeless truths.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Adam Woog <i>The Seattle Times</i> <i>Dirt Music</i> is an...astonishing blend of pell-mell sensation: unreasoning love, grief, the need to escape, desire, fulfillment.<br><br>Dan Cryer <i>Chicago Tribune</i> <i>[Dirt Music]</i> is awe-inspiring....Tim Winton makes words into sounds into music into art. Against so persuasive a literary seduction, no resistance is possible.<br><br>Karen Valby <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> [A]n intense read, raw and beautiful, studded with shards of rage.<br><br>Todd Pruzan <i>The Washington Post</i> Beautiful...compelling...<i>Dirt Music's</i> quiet intensity tightens as the story evolves from a domestic drama into an epic quest.<br>

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