Island home
Subtitle: a landscape memoir
By: Tim Winton
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781571311245
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Australian Authors; Description and travel; Landscapes in literature; Landscapes; Homes and haunts; Biography
Description: "A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him-rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp-has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, and learned to see landscape as a living process. In Island Home, Winton brings this landscape-and its influence on the island nation's identity and art-vividly to life through personal accounts and environmental history. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted-in language as unexpected and wild as the landscape it describes-Island Home is a brilliant, moving portrait of Australia from one of its finest writers"--

"For over thirty years, the author has written novels in which the natural world is as much a living presence as any character. In this beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir, he explores Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped him and his writing"--
Notes: A reissue of the edition published in Melbourne, Vic. (Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015)--from CIP data.

Reprint. Originally published: Melbourne, Vic. : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239).