description: From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere. The recipient of an avalanche of rave reviews around the world, this is the ?must-have? book of the year. In print by Scribner. In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with seventeen overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia. Here are turnings of all kinds ? changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours ? where people struggle against the terrible weight of the past and challenge the lives they?ve made for themselves. ?Winton is overdue for wider recognition in the US. This collection of linked stories showcases his strengths. Winton reveals a wide but finely turned swath of simmering inner lives.? ? Publishers Weekly (starred review) ?a spellbinding collection of short stories ... More than isolated vignettes, Winton's stories are of a whole, seamless, sensuous, and utterly captivating.? ? Booklist ?At once exquisite and unsettling, brimming with imagery so lush and observations so precise the book is almost incandescent? ? The Bulletin
language: English
title: The Turning: Library Edition
titlecomplete: The Turning: Library Edition
genres: Fiction, Book Club, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Short Stories, Australia, School
ratings_count: 5502
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award
category: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Queensland Premier's Literary Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Colin Roderick Award
publisher: Bolinda Audio