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Tim Winton - Land´s Edge: A Coastal Memoir - 9781447203094 - V9781447203094
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Land´s Edge: A Coastal Memoir

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Description for Land´s Edge: A Coastal Memoir Paperback. Tim Winton's homage to the ocean and his childhood is a magnificent celebration of life at its limits Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.

On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton’s days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun and surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled with mirages and the wind came in from the ocean, he was driven inside, to books. In the ‘simple, peculiar shack’ that his family borrowed each year there was a small library: a room with four walls of books, a world unto itself.

Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir is a beautiful delicate memoir in which Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447203094
SKU
V9781447203094
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5

About Tim Winton
Tim Winton has published twenty-six 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 ... Read more

Reviews for Land´s Edge: A Coastal Memoir
Winton's exhilarated eulogy to a life lived from boyhood to manhood by and on the beach . . . Imagine the ideal short memoir of a perfect long day lived between land, sky and sea; this is as good as it gets.
The Times
Wonderfully stirring . . . The great pleasure of Land's Edge is not just ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Land´s Edge: A Coastal Memoir


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