num_pages: 417
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 YearSet 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: Jim Buckridge, Georgie Jutland
genres: Fiction, Australia, Book Club, Drama, Literature, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, 21st Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 13904
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: Scribner