Tim Winton
Hardcover | Pages: 317 pages Rating: 4.03 | 4348 Users | 316 Reviews
Identify Books Toward The Turning
| Original Title: | The Turning |
| ISBN: | 0330421387 (ISBN13: 9780330421386) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (2005), Queensland Premier's |
| Literary Awards: | for Fiction (2005), Colin Roderick Award (2004) |
Description As Books The Turning
Set on a coastal stretch of Western Australia, Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds — changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world. With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not what they had hoped.
Details Appertaining To Books The Turning
| Title | : | The Turning |
| Author | : | Tim Winton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 317 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2004 by Picador USA |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Australia |
Rating Appertaining To Books The Turning
Ratings: 4.03 From 4348 Users | 316 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books The Turning
I have always had a soft spot for short stories, and I've always enjoyed Tim Winton's. This collection is a mixed bag centred around Angelus, W.A. (said to represent Albany, I gather, but don't know) and the various people and families who cross paths with each other at different ages and stages.Each story is self-sufficient, not a chapter in a novel, but the way they intersect shows us characters and situations from different viewpoints. Winton inhabits them all well, particularly young boys.
The Turning is Winton perfection, as always. A collection of interrelated short stories set along the coast of Western Australia. Many of these stories have themes of turnings, of changes, and all of them depict life in Australia, the beauty, the brutality and the honesty. Winton has an amazing skill at providing the reader with snapshots of real life. It takes immense skill to write short stories that leave the reader sated. In my opinion Winton delivers that statisfaction, that sense of
Tim Winton's Turning is so startling in its simplicity, and so moving in its depiction of ordinary that I felt I had to make an account to leave a review. The setting, although perfectly described and created, I find almost irrelevant to the film. Instead perhaps, the idea that is highlighted the most throughout all the stories is the trap of the cycle failure and disappointment. The beautiful yet melancholic narration of relationships and personal journey in the Turning looks at the
Western Australian cliche after cliche - no surprise for Winton, Australia's most overrated author, but even the whirlwind (willy-willy?) of terrible similes can't mask just how bad some of these stories are. Winton writing as a 14 year old girl is so excruciating, you need to turn your head away. I'm sure these will work better as film, but why bother?
The Turning is a collection of 17 interrelated short stories which, in their collectivity, could actually be seen as a novel built around the fictional town of Angelus, in Western Australia. Published between Dirt Music and Breath, the volume is another tour de force from the Australia writer who has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.The stories, as all of Tim Wintons adult works starting certainly with Shallows, are sharply wrought. There is not a wasted word and those words that
I have to say that the start of the book (at least the first two chapters) was not at all to my taste. Perhaps it was the lack of depth, maybe the clumsy rawness of it all, or the forlorn tone (which continues throughout the book). I wasn't keen to continue reading, but it would have to happen eventually and one of my friends who had already read it held steadfast to her claim that it would get better - that the story would be intertwined and become more than it may at first appear. So I read
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