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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I was really impressed by this book. Winton employs a style that takes a little getting used to - lack of quotations always makes me have to pay a little more attention - but his writing is so brilliant and clear, that I was drawn in very quickly and felt like I was standing right there next to the characters. And what complex, very interesting, real people his characters are! All three of the main characters are going through some personal crisis or are lost in some way. Their interactions are very real and unpredictable - so refreshing! I felt like this book was really a window into three different lives, three different personalities, and how they are all intertwined. I am definitely interested in more from this author after reading this. (  ) akandy | May 26, 2009 |  One of my favourite reads of 2006 and my first by this author. I don't know if distance lends enchantment but the western Australian coast was so vividly evoked for me that I wanted to fly there straight away. The prose is seemingly plain but at the same time poetic in an unstrained way. It's a journey novel with all that sort of novel entails but it certainly felt different to the American type road novels, though no wish to criticise the latter on my part. (  ) hazelk | May 15, 2009 | Brilliant book with extraordinary stark yet poetic prose. I've never been to Western Australia but I swear I could smell the place - and the people! I loved his flawed and human characters. My only complaint is that a glossary of Aussie slang would not have gone astray. (  )1  liehtzu | May 10, 2009 | I first read the novel Breath by Tim Winton and was completely entranced, so I had to try some more of his books. Dirt Music does not disappoint. Tim Winton's writing is magical, and I was transported to Western and Northern Australia, as Lu Fox tries to survive in a world that has taken everyone and everything he loves. This is a complex book where things are slowly revealed and you feel sympathy for all the characters. Savour it. Highly recommended. ( ) Scrabblenut | Jan 28, 2009 | Great read. Used really good descriptive language. This bloke can write. This story covered a lot of human emotions. The characters were real. I'drecommend this to any Australian although I'm not sure if non-Australians would relate to the descriptions of the countryside very well. ( ) MarkKeeffe | Jan 5, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0330490265, Paperback)Arguably one of the finest of all Australian novelists, Tim Winton shows that he remains in top form with Dirt Music, a wistful, charged, ardent novel of female loss and amatory redemption. The setting is Winton's favorite: the thorn-bushed, sheep-farmed, sun-punished boondocks of Western Australia. The cast is limited but spirited: the two chief protagonists are Georgie Jutland, a fortysomething adoptive mother with a vodka problem, and Luther Fox, a brooding, feral, bushwhacking poacher.The plot is something else altogether: an elegantly wearied, cleverly finessed mutual odyssey that opts to follow the sometimes intertwining, sometimes diverging lives of poor Georgie and Luther as they try to deal with the odd alliance they comprise, as well as the complex and fractured lives they want to leave behind. The way Georgie deals with her unwitting inheritance of two dissatisfied adopted kids is particularly touching, poignant, and well written. Best of all, though, is the prose. Somehow it manages to be simultaneously juicy and dry, like a desert cactus. This is especially true when Winton touches on the scented harshness of the Down Under outback: "the music is jagged and pushy and he for one just doesn't want to bloody hear it, but the outbursts of strings and piano are as austere and unconsoling as the pindan plain out there with its spindly acacia and red soil." This is a wise and accomplished novel. --Sean Thomas, Amazon.co.uk (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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