Winton's words bring his characters to life.

From: Cape Times (South Africa) | Date: August 15, 2006 | Copyright information

BYLINE: The Turning

Tim Winton

(Pan Macmillan)

Review:

Margie Orford

The Turning tongues a shiver of recognition down your spine. Tim Winton, short-listed for the Booker Prize for The Riders (1995) and Dirt Music (2002), evokes the changes of heart, the slow awakenings, the cul-de-sacs and detours of ordinary people feeling their way through the prosaic heartbreak, as well as the breathless moments of lust and joy of ordinary lives.

The Turning is a collection of overlapping short stories set in the dismal Australian harbour town of Angelus. The stories loop outwards as ...

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