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Island Home

By Tim Winton
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Island Home by Tim Winton offers a personal exploration of Australia's landscapes and their profound significance in shaping the author's identity and worldview. Winton shares his deep connection to the environment, reflecting on how the ocean, desert, and forests inspire his writing and life. Through evocative descriptions and personal anecdotes, he reveals the intertwined relationship between place and self-discovery.
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This book may appeal to you if you appreciate evocative explorations of Australia's diverse landscapes through the eyes of one of its beloved authors. You'll likely enjoy it if you're drawn to personal memoirs that delve into the intimate connection between people and place, capturing the beauty and harshness of the natural world.

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The natural world, in Tim Winton's novels, is as much a living presence as any character, and what is true of his work is true of his life. From boyhood, his relationship with sea, scrub and swamp has been as vital as blood relations. The country has seeped into him, with its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance.

This is the story of how that relationship came to be, and also a passionate exhortation for all of us to feel the ground beneath our feet. Much more so than any political idea, the physical entity of Australia defines us, in ways we too often forget.

Wise, rhapsodic, exalted, Island Home is a beautiful, evocative, sometimes provocative, investigation of how the land makes us who we are.

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Island Home by Tim Winton is celebrated for its vivid portrayal of Australia's landscapes and the author's personal connection to them. Critics note Winton's passionate engagement with environmental issues and his poetic use of language. The memoir often intertwines his personal experiences with broader reflections on the land and its significance to identity and culture.

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ISBN: 9780143574095

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 May 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 244g

Pages: 256

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Biography & Memoir Musicians, Movie Stars & Creative Biographies Non-Fiction Penguin Books Science & Nature Tim Winton

About the Author

Tim Winton has published twenty-eight books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. 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). He lives in Western Australia.

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