Tim Winton
The Boy Behind the Curtain
Notes From an Australian Life
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'A book that grabs you by the scruff . . . Compelling, unflinching and true' ScotsmanBeing a copper's son, I've always got one eye out for trouble. I can't help it. But I don't go looking for it anymore.Chaos has shaped Tim Winton's life, and in these extraordinarily powerful true stories he reveals the accidents, both serendipitous and traumatic, that have influenced his view of the world. From unexpected links between car crashes and faith, the dangers of surfing and writing, to the story of his upbringing in the changing Australian landscape, The Boy Behind the Curtain is an impassioned, funny collection of memories, and a book like no ot…
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'A book that grabs you by the scruff . . . Compelling, unflinching and true' ScotsmanBeing a copper's son, I've always got one eye out for trouble. I can't help it. But I don't go looking for it anymore.Chaos has shaped Tim Winton's life, and in these extraordinarily powerful true stories he reveals the accidents, both serendipitous and traumatic, that have influenced his view of the world. From unexpected links between car crashes and faith, the dangers of surfing and writing, to the story of his upbringing in the changing Australian landscape, The Boy Behind the Curtain is an impassioned, funny collection of memories, and a book like no other.'Melancholy but humorous, lyrical but boisterous . . . will delight even those unfamiliar with his fiction' Daily Telegraph'A masterclass in turning appalling incidents into meditations on mortality, fatherhood and responsibility' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent'Eclectic and impassioned' Observer
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-1695-8
- EAN: 9781509816958
- Produktnummer: 24520502
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Tim Winton has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. 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). He lives in Western Australia.
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