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| Original Title: | Dirt Music |
| ISBN: | 0330490265 (ISBN13: 9780330490269) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Georgie Jutland, Jim Buckridge |
| Setting: | Western Australia(Australia) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2002), New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (2002), Miles Franklin Literary Award (2002), Western Australian Premier's Book Award (2001), Kiriyama Prize Nominee for Fiction (2002) |
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| Title | : | Dirt Music |
| Author | : | Tim Winton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 465 pages |
| Published | : | May 30th 2008 by Picador (first published January 1st 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Literature. Contemporary |
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Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman, a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain.One morning Fox is observed poaching by Georgie Jutland. Chance, or a kind of willed recklessness, has brought Georgie into the life and home of Jim Buckridge, the most prosperous fisherman in the area and a man who loathes poachers, Fox above all. But she's never fully settled into Jim's grand house on the water or into the inbred community with its history of violent secrets. After Georgie encounters Fox, her tentative hold on conventional life is severed. Neither of them would call it love, but they can't stay away from each other no matter how dangerous it is, and out on White Point it is very dangerous.
Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music is a love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past and about the lure of music. Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is "anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity." Even in the wild, Luther cannot escape it. There is, he discovers, no silence in nature.
Ambitious, perfectly calibrated, Dirt Music resonates with suspense and supercharged emotion, and it confirms Tim Winton's status as the preeminent Australian novelist of his generation.
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This was odd. This book has 500 pages and I couldn't stop reading it although I didnt like it. It's a book about West and North Australia. It sure is contemporary, if contemporary means deep emotions, metaphysics, mystery, heartbreaking love, suffocating pain, guilt, remorse and redemption. Connected with nature but that is I suppose normal if you live in Australia. But, it failed to be memorable and I didnt believe these characters and their love triangle was weird. They were bordering between"God knows, music will undo you, and yet you're whacking this thing into a long, gorgeous, monotonous, hypnotic note and it's not killing you, it's not driving you into some burning screaming wreck of yourself - listen! (...) The sudden groove you're in - damn, just listen to that!"40-year-old Georgie lives with Jim, a widowed fisherman and father of two, in (the invented town of) White Point, Western Australia. Unemployed, unhappy and a heavy drinker, she feels stuck in her own life, until she
"The covers of this book are too far apart." Ambrose Bierce
Tim Winton has a vast vocabulary, creates intense imagery and writes beautifully about our land, Australia. He had me transfixed on WA, inland and coast both arid and vivid. I want to explore the beautiful Coronation Bay, even if it's only make believe :)
I read this many years ago. While I knew I enjoyed it, I couldn't remember that much about it, which is very frustrating, but it's happened before and it'll probably get worse. As I professed a million times before, Tim Winton is one of my favourite writers. His autographed books are some of my most treasured belongings. I was fortunate enough to see and hear him speak and have my books autographed on several occasions. My second taste of Dirt Music was via the e-audiobook. I didn't quite like
no spoilers, just synopsisI'd definitely recommend this book, but I think something got lost in translation for me personally since I've never been to Australia and could only try to envision the places Winton talks about in here. Landscape (geographical in its relation to human) is such an integral part of this novel that I feel sort of left out not ever having seen any of the place. Set in a fictional place called White Point, a fishing town, the novel focuses on three people: 1) Georgie
This is going to be a hard one for me to write about. Dirt Music, by well-known Australian author Tim Winton, has been on my reading list for ages and I finally was able to pick it up. I wanted to like it. I wanted to love it. After reading it, though, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It took me about 160 pages to stop wanting to put the book down, although after I hit that point, I did really want to finish it.First I want to point out that I'm a bit of a lazy reader. I also have definite
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