Description
| Product ID: | 9780330412582 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | An Open Swimmer |
| Authors: | Author: Tim Winton |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Winner of the Australian/Vogel Award for Best First Novel, this is at once a haunting and powerful exploration of the horrors and joys of adulthood. <p><b>Winner of the <i>Australian</i>/Vogel Award for Best First Novel, Tim Winton's <i>An Open Swimmer</i> is a meditation on past and present, a story of madness and murder, and of the punishing yet redemptive qualities of both fire and water.</b><br><br> A fishing trip marks the end of Jerra and Sean’s friendship, although once, when they were younger and more innocent, it would have seemed unbelievable that the bond between them – first forged by their fathers, and later sealed with their blood – could ever be broken. But growing up has meant growing apart, the differences between them widening, sharpening their teasing words into something crueller and less easy to forgive.<br><br>‘Winton’s writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics’ - <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-05-02 |
