num_pages: 480
description: 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 Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music 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, Dirt Music resonates with suspense, emotion, and timeless truths.
language: English
title: Dirt Music
titlecomplete: Dirt Music
characters: Georgie Jutland, Jim Buckridge
genres: Drama, Australia, 21st Century, Novels, Romance, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Book Club
ratings_count: 13906
places: Australia, Western Australia
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award
category: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Western Australian Premier's Book Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: PICADOR (MACM)