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Eyrie

By Tim Winton
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Eyrie by Tim Winton follows the story of a disillusioned environmentalist named Tom Keely, who struggles with his sense of purpose after a fall from grace. Retreating to a high-rise apartment, he navigates personal turmoil while becoming entangled with a neighbour and her young grandson. This encounter forces Keely to confront his past and consider a path to redemption amidst his troubled life.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy deeply moving narratives set against a compelling Australian backdrop. The story weaves themes of redemption and resilience as it follows a man grappling with personal failures and societal changes. With its vivid characters and emotional depth, it provides a powerful exploration of human vulnerability.

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Divorced and unemployed, he's lost faith in everything precious to him. Holed up in a grim highrise, cultivating his newfound isolation, Keely looks down at a society from which he's retired hurt and angry. He's done fighting the good fight, and well past caring. Australian author.

The highly anticipated new novel from Tim Winton, Eyrie is a heart-stopping, groundbreaking novel for our times - funny, confronting, exhilarating and haunting.

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Tom Keely's reputation is in ruins. And that's the upside. Divorced and unemployed, he's lost faith in everything precious to him. Holed up in a grim high-rise, cultivating his newfound isolation, Keely looks down at a society from which he's retired hurt and angry. He's done fighting the good fight, and well past caring.

But even in his seedy flat, ducking the neighbours, he's not safe from entanglement. All it takes is an awkward encounter in the lobby. A woman from his past, a boy the likes of which he's never met before. Two strangers leading a life beyond his experience and into whose orbit he falls despite himself.

What follows is a heart-stopping, groundbreaking novel for our times—funny, confronting, exhilarating and haunting. Inhabited by unforgettable characters, Eyrie asks how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the right thing.

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Eyrie by Tim Winton is celebrated for its profound and thoughtful prose, immersing readers in a rich narrative that explores myths of prosperity and success with compassion and clarity. Reviewers have praised its ability to skillfully balance sophistication and simplicity, focusing on the life of its protagonist, Keely, and the struggles of his adoptive family. The novel's evocative depiction of the underclass set against the backdrop of a tidied suburban world, coupled with Winton's original and detail-oriented writing style, creates a powerful and engrossing experience.

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ISBN: 9781926428536

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 October 2013

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hamish Hamilton

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 42.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 792g

Pages: 432

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About the Author

Tim Winton has published twenty-five books for adults and children. 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).

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