Tim Winton depicts a man’s desperate quest across Europe, as he tries to track down his missing wife
Dirt Music
Written by Tim Winton
- Shortlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2002
- Published by Picador
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Tim Winton’s modern love story about people stifled by grief or regret, whose dreams are lost, and whose hopes have all but dried up
At the age of 40, Georgie Jutland finds herself stranded in White Point, a fishing community north of Perth, with a fisherman she doesn’t love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. One morning a dangerous new element enters her life - Luther Fox, the local sea-poacher, jinx and outcast. Set in the wild landscape of Western Australia, this is a novel about the odds of breaking with the past. It’s a journey across landscapes within and without, about the music that sometimes arises from the dust.
Tim Winton
Tim Winton has been described as one of the greatest living Australian writers
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