An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton

An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton

Winner of the Australian/Vogel Award for Best First Novel, Tim Winton's An Open Swimmer is a meditation on past and present, a story of madness and murder, and of the punishing yet redemptive qualities of both fire and water. A fishing trip marks the end of Jerra and Sean’s friendship, although once, when they were younger and more innocent, it would have seemed unbelievable that the bond between them – first forged by their fathers, and later sealed with their blood – could ever be broken. But growing up has meant growing apart, the differences between them widening, sharpening their teasing words into something crueller and less easy to forgive. ‘Winton’s writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics’ - Sunday Telegraph

Winton’s writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics* Sunday Telegraph *
His elegiac novels are uplifting and cathartic dissections of fractured men and women. * Independent *
Winton has a fine ear for both intimate and monumental scales of drama. * Evening Standard *

Tim Winton has published over twenty books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into many different 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). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia.

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ISBN 13	9780330412582
ISBN 10	0330412582
Title	An Open Swimmer
Author	Tim Winton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2008-05-02
Number of pages	208
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