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Dirt Music

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Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman, a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain.

One morning Fox is observed poaching by Georgie Jutl

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Published July 4th 2003 by Picador USA (first published January 1st 2002)

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Dec 06, 2010 ·Karen· rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Blokey novel, full of blokey blokes doing blokey stuff. Far too many people hanging upside down in vehicles of one kind or another, and the predictable ending was deliberately delayed too long for my patience. It's either a momentous portrayal of a raw, archaic world or rather silly, depending on your point of view. I found it silly.

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Oct 27, 2010 Jana rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This was odd. This book has 500 pages and I couldn't stop reading it although I didn’t like it. It's a book about West and North Australia. It sure is contemporary, if contemporary means deep emotions, metaphysics, mystery, heartbreaking love, suffocating pain, guilt, remorse and redemption. Connected with nature but that is I suppose normal if you live in Australia.

But, it failed to be memorable and I didn’t believe these characters and their love triangle was weird. They were bordering betwee...more

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Nov 04, 2007 Jolene Elliott rated it 4 of 5 stars

I loved this because although its supposed to be a 'love story', it didn't display any of the usual unrealistic aspects of fictional love. The characters were truly screwed up, insecure and fragile, with their own personal strengths and weaknesses.
The poacher as a character started off seeming mysterious, impenatrable and dangerous, but soon is revealed as simultaneously fierce and sort of pathetic, needing help to reenter society or something. Very strange. I think thats why i liked it. althou...more

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Dec 15, 2010 Merilee rated it 4 of 5 stars

I don't agree with Karen that this book is overly blokeish or laddish. I'm on page 100 and really enjoying it so far. The main character so far(Georgie) is a woman.

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Apr 06, 2013 Ilyhana Kennedy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Here is an interesting writer. In some way I think he is still in his formative years...in the early part of the book, he does his best to shock the reader in every second sentence, overkill, subtle as a brick through a window. However, this book is a fabulous read and when the shock factor eases back in his writing about 100 pages in, the writing morphs into astonishingly evocative imagery. The words themselves have a "sound" to them that must be taken in along with the visuals evoked.
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Mar 14, 2013 Jennifer rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is going to be a hard one for me to write about. Dirt Music, by well-known Australian author Tim Winton, has been on my reading list for ages and I finally was able to pick it up. I wanted to like it. I wanted to love it. After reading it, though, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It took me about 160 pages to stop wanting to put the book down, although after I hit that point, I did really want to finish it.

First I want to point out that I'm a bit of a lazy reader. I also have definite...more This is going to be a hard one for me to write about. Dirt Music, by well-known Australian author Tim Winton, has been on my reading list for ages and I finally was able to pick it up. I wanted to like it. I wanted to love it. After reading it, though, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It took me about 160 pages to stop wanting to put the book down, although after I hit that point, I did really want to finish it.

First I want to point out that I'm a bit of a lazy reader. I also have definite tendencies to be annoyed by the following: 1. Lack of punctuation. 2. Present tense. 3. That really really literary-fiction style where you NEVER tell, you ONLY show. Dirt Music suffers from all three. The present tense I can forgive in this book because it was fairly limited in it's use. The No Tell is supposed to be the best style of writing but when it's overdone it annoys me, and it did in this book. Also... Please use punctuation Mr. Winton. I'm begging you. God invented the quotation mark for a reason. I swear. If your keyboard is broken such that the quote key isn't working, I'll chip in for a new one. Am I being petty? Perhaps, but it is too much work to read something where the dialog isn't properly marked. You don't know immediately if they actually said something or if it's character thoughts, or if it's narrative.

I also had a problem with this book because I didn't feel like I really understood the characters. This is possibly because the book suffered a lot from my pet peeve #3 above, and maybe I didn't catch all the nuances of the "showing." In particular, I never really felt like I understood Georgie, the main character. Why did she fall for Luther Fox? Why did she do the other things she did in this book? I feel like the things she did and how she acted was very interesting, I just didn't feel that I knew her. The author doles out her past in tiny ambiguous chunks and I just couldn't put the puzzle together. Georgie's character should have made for a good story, but I never felt like I understood her, so it all kept coming out of the blue for me.

I also wasn't sure what to make of the ending. I'm not always one who looks for the "wrapped up in a shiny red bow" ending, but I do prefer a certain amount of structure so I know what the author intended. Even a wide-open ending purposefully set to invoke question is something I like. But Dirt Music was neither of these, in my opinion.

So what did I like? I liked the setting. We see small-town fishing-village Australia and later some of the northern outback. I liked that. I liked the relationship between Georgie and Luther (although I didn't particularly understand it). I quite liked the character of Luther. I liked his backstory. I found he was the most interesting. I liked how he "ran away" from his life and eventually brought about an internal healing of himself and the ability to get back to music. I liked his hitching journey across Australia and his retreat from everything. Toward the end of the book we get to know the character of Jim a bit more, and I liked that as well. While Jim's character didn't intrigue me, I wanted to know more about him, if only to shed more light on Georgie's character and actions.

Overall I'm glad that I read Dirt Music. It was something different for me, and a little difficult, and maybe that struggle is good. Perhaps this is the sort of book that will make me grow as a reader. However, while I may pick up another of Winton's books one day, I'm not in a very big hurry to do so.(less)

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Jan 09, 2013 Yvonne rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Tim Winton is an Australian writer who brings Australia's vast and forbidding landscape to life on the page. I was left imagining Australia, at least the west and the northwest, as sauna hot, where it can be hard to breath and even too hot to swim. The land can be tropical but is also rough and hard with beautiful vistas of ocean, red dirt, remanents of old mountains, palms and mangroves on the coast, clusters of cockatoo's flying out of clusters of trees and the sea teaming with fish life inclu...more Tim Winton is an Australian writer who brings Australia's vast and forbidding landscape to life on the page. I was left imagining Australia, at least the west and the northwest, as sauna hot, where it can be hard to breath and even too hot to swim. The land can be tropical but is also rough and hard with beautiful vistas of ocean, red dirt, remanents of old mountains, palms and mangroves on the coast, clusters of cockatoo's flying out of clusters of trees and the sea teaming with fish life including those enormous 6 foot salt water crocodiles. And an endless desert land dotted with roos and cattle and boab trees under a throbbing white blue sky.

"He follows his own tyre tracks to a short distance up into the hinterland before it occurs to him to keep wide of firebreaks and bush tracks, but the scrub here is savage underfoot. Heady smell of saltbush. The insect hum of acacia. The only trees are rare huddles of coastal morts whose bark hangs like torn bandages. Heat shudders upon the land. A fenceline. Then a nasty belt of banksia country - all sharkskin trunks and serrated leaves - and it's like wading through barbed wire."

The story is about Georgie Jutland, a former nurse and complicated woman, who is a bit fucked up. She lives with a locally reknown fisherman in a wild, beautiful coastal town called White Point. It's a rich fishing town, all the locals made their money on lobster and abalone. But there is a town mentality that makes it a rough ride for so called 'outsiders' or people who won't fit the town 'mold' as hard drinking, quick to punching red necks. The town reveres Georgie's partner Jim, his word being law, but he remains a mystery to Georgie.

Georgie accidently meets Lu Fox, a loner with tremendous musical talent, but a bit fucked up. The story centres on their short time together and then their individual journeys to self understanding, healing and moving on in life. And it's a great read.
Lu has an extremely sad backstory that has crippled him in his ability to move on from grief. He is a very likable character for the reader, in the story no one likes him except Georgie. He is considered bad luck, and the townspeople don't want him or his bad karma around.

Georgie is less likable to me because she is so removed from her own life, and things are happening around her that she can't recognize. I found her a bit cruel when her own family came into the story and in my opinion, she really let her favourite sister down. Strangely that story line is left hanging, perhaps left for us to imagine Georgie making amends after the book ends.
Some of the local language makes the story funny as well as having characters with names such as Chugger, Beaver, Yogi, and Darkie (a white guy).
Dirt Music really is about life's journey, the choices we make, the things that can happen that we can't control and regrets for things we did or didn't do. It takes courage to look inside ourselves and be honest. And it takes courage to change.
Georgie begins to see the present in a different light and that prompts her to ask questions and demand answers. Lu puts himself in remote, life threatening circumstances to face his past without the excuses he had always made. But not all tied up in a nice bow.

And finally here is one of my favourite scenes from the book, which has little to do with the story, but is just enjoyable,
"One afternoon he's filleting fish and throwing the heads and backbones into the water when a pack of sharks glides in across the shallows. The tide is high and the water a little murky but he sees them clearly enough as they swim figure-eights at the shoreline, their double dorsal fins and high tails out of the water. He picks them as tawny nurses; their shovel-like heads are bronze and ochre and the way they swim is a kind of dance, a fluid movement from nose to tail. Out beyond them two sleeker sharks make passes. Lemon sharks. Skittish, aggressive, more the whaler type with all that lunging paranoia. Fox throws out a few morsels and the sharks roll in a welter of spray to get at them. He drops hanks of skin and guts closer to shore and the lemon sharks bullock their way in so fast they wet him. The sight of it makes his heart thump."
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Jun 02, 2012 Christine Christman rated it 4 of 5 stars

What a great read. Buckridge and Fox and Georgie all rolling out their past wounds into the complex story of the place in their lives where Tim drops us right down with a plop. I loved each character because of their struggles with self-awareness, their willingness to touch, even if ever so slightly, their own pain and try to sort it out. Tim always does the most amazing job taking me to Australia, the many ways of experiencing the country and the many eyes through which the landscape can be vie...more

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Dec 07, 2010 Haley Mcconaghy added it

I couldn't put it down, but I'm not sure why. I disagreed with the world view of the main character, Georgie, and her antagonist, Buckridge.... Neither were very compelling. I'd have to say my favorite character was Lu. I guess I just wasn't convinced that Georgie and Lu had anything special enough to justify the ridiculous actions or thoughts of either of them. When Lu is clinging to life (not with tenacity, but almost resignedly?) he thinks about Georgie. The very fact that the wilderness he r...more

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Jan 16, 2008 Magdalena rated it 5 of 5 stars

Dirt Music is one of those books that gets under your skin. Comes into your bed with you; changes your dreams; travels with you throughout the mundane details of everyday life. Winton's descriptive prose works both externally in its depiction of the natural land - the sea and desert of Western Australia which makes up its setting, and internally, in the way it goes deep inside the pain and anxieties of its characters, as they struggle to free themselves from tremendous damage, and paralysis.

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Apr 11, 2013 Lakshmi rated it 3 of 5 stars

It was my introduction in many ways to literature from the South. All the reviewers had raved about the extensively detailed rendering of the Australian landscape. And indeed, it was worth raving about. The author manages to very vividly bring to life the landscape, its richness and diversity, yet its loneliness and toughness. In many ways parallel to the characters of the book. As they used to say about Hardy's books, the character at the fore in this book was the country and its forlorn, far f...more

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Jun 09, 2009 Janet rated it 5 of 5 stars

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One of the best contemporary books I've read for a long time. Tim Winton is at one with his home area around Perth, WA and has written a story that whisks you there.

It tells of Georgie, a forty year old retired nurse who surfs the net and appreciates her vodka; Jim Buckridge, Georgie's lover, who is a successful fisherman and the "uncrowned prince" of White Point; and Luther Fox, the unluckiest outcast in White Point who is grieving the loss of his entire family and poaching lobster traps.

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Jan 28, 2010 Steve rated it 3 of 5 stars

The characters match the Western Australian terrain in their rawness in Winton's impressive description of the disillusionment of small-town life. Georgie, a forty-year-old ex-nurse who turned her back on her roots in the elite of Perth society, finds herself both stranded in this fishing village of White Point and in a relationship with local fisherman and bully Jim Buckridge. Her savious appears in the forlorn figure of poacher Luther Fox, himself struggling to come to terms with the loss of h...more

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Mar 10, 2010 janet rated it 4 of 5 stars

4 1/2 - Except for the penultimate part of the novel dragging on a bit and an ever so slightly overly dramatic or sentimental ending, this would have been a 5. Having said that, there are three main things I loved about the book.

First, I love the way Winton locates us in a place. He describes the natural surroundings so vividly, explains the character of the microcosm of society represented in White Point thoroughly but subtlely, and when you read his words, you know an Australian is guiding yo...more 4 1/2 - Except for the penultimate part of the novel dragging on a bit and an ever so slightly overly dramatic or sentimental ending, this would have been a 5. Having said that, there are three main things I loved about the book.

First, I love the way Winton locates us in a place. He describes the natural surroundings so vividly, explains the character of the microcosm of society represented in White Point thoroughly but subtlely, and when you read his words, you know an Australian is guiding you through the sometimes frightening or disturbing tour of the lives of two rather star-crossed, seriously damaged lovers. I have a ton of Australian flora and fauna and phrases to look up at the moment. Since my primary interest in literature deals with post-colonialism and the Englishes of the former British Empire, I was rather thrilled to find that his novel seemed fully Australian without the colonial baggage and at the same time dealt with the language and problems inherited by the British. For example, he offered a sad portrayal of attitudes toward Aboriginals, partly caused by the way that the continent, a penal colony, was settled and led by the British. The two aboriginal characters in the novel were unusual and represented something bordering on mystical which is a vaguely colonial way of looking at indigenous populations. Those characters' speech was different from the non-Aboriginal Australians, but their language wasn't made to sound "broken" and included Aboriginal words. Additionally, I felt that they were pretty well-rounded characters. Winton also expressed how Australia, while vast and remote, has rather deep connections to Asia geographically which I was interested in too, but Winton also showed ways in which outsiders and Asian immigrants weren't accepted by the community.

Secondly, I enjoyed how completely messed up and loveable the two main characters were and how much their survival depended on their relationship- a bit unusual. Also, they are characters I now feel like I know and that I felt frustrated with at times.

Finally, the novel dealt poignantly with universal themes such as coming to grips with death and loss and finding meaning in life along with allusions and references to religious salvation in a Christian context with phrases such as "fisher of men" and saying "Luther" might have been named "Calvin". I love it when authors use such allusions to bring resonance to their work and he is among that number. The references to the great English writers and great music didn't hurt either.
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Jun 05, 2011 Emma rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, aussie

Gee, what to say really? Winton is a natural when it comes to description. He can prattle on for miles about this rock and that tree. But when it comes to the meat of a story, he likes to blow past the most interesting and provocative bits! What is with that??? To say this is a love story is laughable to me. Where's the love? How did it happen? Did I miss it? Winton drones on for 100s of pages about landscape, wildlife and paints an exhaustively clear picture of Western Australia. But at what po...more

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Jun 10, 2009 Kiwiflora rated it 5 of 5 stars

Multi layered, beautifully written, descriptive and atmospheric. A love story revolving around a love triangle, but also a journey of self discovery for each of the three troubled characters, each with more baggage than an inner city railway station. They are a mess, and so are the relationships. Set against the raw and rough and unforgiving land and sea scape of Western Australia, beauty and love and forgiveness somehow happen amongst these three damaged individuals. What remains with me the mo...more

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Sep 23, 2008 Ben rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: romance novel enthusiasts

Its was like a soap opera - winding plot with romantic scenery and romantic ideas about what hippies and working class folks are like and the activities they do. Stupid book more or less, but it was tolerable. I give 2 stars to a book that I can finish. I didn't put it down, but if it was much longer I would have.

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Jun 01, 2012 Ed Eleazer rated it 4 of 5 stars

The most satisfying conclusion of any of Winton's novels that I have read thus far. Perhaps I'm just an old Romantic or pre-post-Modernist, but I feel that if one reads of the sufferings that two characters endure over the course of 400+ pages, those sufferings should be healed and some redemption should be achieved. Otherwise, one need not have spent time following these characters' lives. Seldom in the real world are conflicts resolved, and seldom do people suffer for any sort of purpose. Howe...more

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Jun 29, 2012 Christopher Rex rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is an excellent author. I've been surprised to note that several bookstores in the US don't carry a single title under his name. Definitely a voice to check out. He creates great characters, brings the Australian landscape to life and tells amazing stories. I'm not sure who I'd compare him to in this regard, but if you looking for a fresh voice this is a good call.

This story centers around 2 somewhat "lost" souls whose lives become intertwined, for better and for worse. In traversing their...more

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Feb 11, 2010 n* Dalal rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: those who dream of living along in the Aussie outback. Don't.

Recommended to n* by: Ms. Monika Ciolek

This was really good right up to the end, which absolutely squelched with cheese.

There was a little too much nature-porn for a city-girl like me, but I got through it because the character who goes to live by himself in the Australian outback ends up tearing up his feet against oyster shells, sunburning his own eyeballs (!), fevered, infected, and generally in need of a nearby Chinese medicine practitioner or ER, whatever your persuasion.

This should be obvious from the title: the book talks abou...more

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Jan 11, 2011 Nancy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Loved this book up until the final chapters. It's an interesting problem to have: 1) a book that ties things up in a nice and tidy order or 2)one that doesn't. This one left too many loose ends, dangling threads.

Lovely prose and dialect - Australian style. Good story blooms betwixt two flawed characters, tragic histories, precarious futures and their eventual merging...or not. Pages turned furiously, but as the balance of page weight was on the west side of the spine, I found myself wondering: h...more

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Jan 13, 2011 Louise Tobin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: australian, borrowed-from-library, read-in-2011

This is not a love story. This is a story of when two outcasts in a small town come together and share their broken lives.
Georgie is with Jim Buckridge, someone who is revered in the small fishing town of White Point. His sons show her contempt but she feels they love her deep down but cant show it.
Luther Fox, destroyed by a horrific accident that took his whole family has been living by stealing fish since. A xenophobic neighbour mutilates his dog and runs him out of town once he finds out abou...more

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Jan 29, 2011 Alan Wightman rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Alan by: Mary Watson

Set in the fictional Western Australian fishing town of White Point. Georgie is an ex-nurse who finds herself living in a loveless relationship with Jim, the local fishing hero, renowned as a lucky commercial fisherman. Georgie becomes entangled with Luther Fox, the local poacher, renowned as unlucky, having lost his family in a car accident.

This is a plot-driven novel, and hence I was able to read it very fast. I find with plot-driven material that one can be so keen to find out what happens n...more

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Jun 20, 2010 McNeil rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Adults, Kali

Recommended to McNeil by: Angelie

Shelves: contemporary-adult-fiction

Is it your birthday? Run out and treat yourself to this book! I loved this book. It was beautifully written--the narrative jumps from Lu to Georgie, the embedded flashbacks, the gorgeous descriptions of everything from a huge variety of Australian landscapes to how it feels to want someone --all of it was painstakingly masterful.

The main characters were so flawed and real that it was heartbreaking. Just folks trying to deal with their own stories, trying to decide what to make of the rest of th...more Is it your birthday? Run out and treat yourself to this book! I loved this book. It was beautifully written--the narrative jumps from Lu to Georgie, the embedded flashbacks, the gorgeous descriptions of everything from a huge variety of Australian landscapes to how it feels to want someone --all of it was painstakingly masterful.

The main characters were so flawed and real that it was heartbreaking. Just folks trying to deal with their own stories, trying to decide what to make of the rest of their stories, trying to feel out how much of their stories is up to them to make or if they are written already, a script to follow as they blunder through the years.

The minor characters play like a parade of freaks. Which, look around, don't it seem that way sometimes? Like everyone is just crazy except for me and you and I'm not too sure about you? Many of these characters fit well into Flannery O'Connor's term "grotesque." I thought at times that perhaps there was a deeper layer to this book, and I was to be reading it like an allegory, like how in Ulysses all the things Bloom encounters in his day are representative of something in the old Ulysses story--the library steps are scylla and Charybdis or whatever.

Whether or not there was a whole layer that I missed, this book would definitely merit multiple reads, just for the pleasure of the writing. I felt like I did when I finished my last Sherman Alexie book, like I'd been in the presence of genius, like I could turn to page one and do it again. Happily, I see that Winton has published more books. I will definitely be reading them.

The depiction of music, of how the character felt about music, what it meant in his life, was moving and fascinating. This was the same as The Name of the Wind--the last book I gave 5 stars to. I would think that people like Kali, who seem to feel this way about their music, would enjoy reading this, but she would probably rather be making music than reading about it.

NOTE: This book contains a lot of "bad" words and several graphic sex scenes and some scary violence and intense emotion.

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Aug 03, 2010 Ljuneosborne added it · review of another edition

Dirt Music was, in the simplest terms, a very fun book to read. Below the surface of the entertainment is some very well thought out characters. There is Georgie, the driving force of the plot who tends to have the feeling that something is missing in her life, though she is unsure what. There is Jim, a man with twisted and yet sensible logic who takes matters of pride as gravely serious matters. And finally, there is Lu, a man suffering from the loss of family and haunted by dirt music and memo...more

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May 12, 2010 Paula rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is the third book I have read by Tim Winton, the first two being ‘Cloudstreet’ and ‘That Eye, the Sky’, both wonderful books. ‘Dirt Music’ was equally impressive, it tells the story of Georgie Jutland, a lonely 40 year old woman who finds herself far from home, with a man she knows she does not love and his sons, who do not hide how they feel about Georgie. Georgie meets Luther Fox, an outcast in White Point for many reasons, Georgie finds herself falling for Lu and everything changes for b...more

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Jan 08, 2012 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-yal

Out of the continent of Australia comes an author I have recently discovered thanks to my husband. Tim Winton writes a story that kept me so captivated that I could not put it down and read it straight through. The story is about a woman, Georgie, and her struggles with herself, her past and the men who come into her life. This is not the typical love story and the depth of the character is enlightening. The book is set to be made into a movie and there is already a sound track of songs written...more

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Jul 22, 2011 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I liked this more than Breath. I thought the plot was better, and I liked the characters of Georgie and Lu, and the twists and turns that kept you on your toes. The first half of the book was really fast moving, with a lot of great stuff happening, a bit of mystery, a bit of romance, a lot of dry humour. But it slowed right down in the last half and did drag a bit. However, Winton's poetic style draws me in, as it's quite evocative. Sometimes I think he's a bit vague in some descriptions, and th...more

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Feb 26, 2013 Grace Sunflower rated it 4 of 5 stars

Against the backdrop of an incredibly beautifully described Western Australian landscape several contrasting Australian rural characters (from crude rednecks to sensitive romantics) take part in an unpredictable saga that is full of twists and turns. Not only is this candid piece of literature an epic adventure into the hearts and minds of characters living in a small WA fishing community, reading this work inspired me to fall deeper in love with the arresting power of language and literature. I...more

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Jul 24, 2012 Greg rated it 4 of 5 stars

A very readable yarn about the function and dysfunction in a small fishing village on the west coast of Australia. Some people are leaders, others fit in and others still are excluded. Buckridge the fisherman is well respected but he has hooked up with Georgie on a surfing trip in Bali after his wife died and the locals can't understand it. Georgie falls in love with Fox - a wayward local villain with a heart of gold. In the end the story heads up north as the love triangle between Buckridge, Ge...more

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Tim Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the small country town of Albany.

Curtin University of Technology, Winton wrote his first novel, An Open Swimmer. It went on to win The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1981, and launched his writing career. In fact, he wrote "the best part of three books while at university". His second book, Shallows, won the Miles Fra...more

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