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Loading... An Open Swimmer (1981)by Tim Winton
![]() Books Read in 2011 (514) No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() Hard to get into story about two friends who aren't getting on so well after they leave school. They go on a fishing holiday on an abandoned area only to find that a hermit lives there. There's a secret that drives the two apart and causes real difficulties for one of the friends. Things are slowly unveiled as the story goes on, but if anything things get even more complicated. no reviews | add a review
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Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want to know when he will finish university, when he will find a girl. But they don't understand about Sean's mother, Jewel, or the bush or the fish with the pearl. They think he needs a job, but what Jerra is searching for is more elusive. Only the sea, and perhaps the old man who lives in a shack beside it, can help.An Open Swimmer is the remarkable first novel by award-winning author Tim Winton. No library descriptions found. |
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