Shallows

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Author:

Winton, Tim

ISBN:

978-1-55597-193-9

Publication Date:

Oct 1993

Publisher:

Graywolf Press

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $12.50

Book Description:

Shallows is set in a small whaling town in Western Australia, where land-based whaling has been a tradition for over 150 years. When Queenie Cookson decides to join an antiwhaling protest group, she defies her husband, her ancestry, and her community. Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in Australia, this eloquent and moving novel speaks with immediacy and passion of the conflict between the values of a closeknit, traditional society and the evolving mores of the...
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Book Details

Pages:	240
Detailed Subjects:	Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.54 x 9.96 x 0.72 Inches
Book Weight:	0.858 Pounds

Author Biography

Winton, Tim (Author)

Tim Winton was born in 1960 in Western Australia. He attended a Creative Writing Course at Curtin University in Perth, and it was there that he began his first novel, An Open Swimmer. It was entered for The Australian/Vogel Award in 1981 and won. His other works include Shallows, which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1984; The Riders Winton, which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1992; and Island Home: A Landscape Memoir, the winner of the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards, General nonfiction book of the year. The Boy Behind the Curtain, published in 2016, won the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Nonfiction. His books also include The Shepherd's Hut, Breath, and Dirt Music.

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