The highly anticipated new novel from Tim Winton, Eyrie is a heart-stopping, groundbreaking novel for our times - funny, confronting, exhilarating and haunting.
Tim Winton has published twenty-five books for adults and children. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music).
*Starred Review* "[A] beautifully written powerful ninth novel . .
. [Winton's] an absurdly good writer, with not only the proverbial
eye for detail but also a facility for rendering each detail in an
original way. Winton is ambitious; this is a state-of-the-nation
novel about a world run amok . . . this is a fascinating,
thought-provoking book." --"Publishers Weekly
"""Eyrie" is a fine work by any standard. It tackles myths of
prosperity and success in a way that is not always comfortable, but
that stirs deep thought. It is rich in compassion and affectionate
towards the unlovely. It has a strong belief that no journey ends
at the halfway mark. "Eyrie" is a novel for which our culture has
been in urgent need." --Michael McGirr, "The Age" (Australia)
"["Eyrie"] bears witness to how the sprawling suburban world of
this older generation, so often perched on the edge of wilder
natural landscapes, has been tidied up, boxed in, the ecology of
childhood imagination narrowed to PlayStation and satellite dish.
Mostly though, it is a clear-eyed yet compassionate depiction of
the underclass that lives off the crumbs of the resource boom . . .
However elaborate your analysis of "Eyrie," the novel stands, like
all of the author's work, on its ability to marry sophistication
and simplicity. Page by page it is an engrossing novel; the reader
is moved and enraged in equal measure by the plain human story of
Keely and his beautiful, battered adoptive family. You long for the
good guy to win. You pray and ache for a fresh start for them all.
And, as ever, it is couched in the prose of a writer on whom
nothing is lost, for whom the tiniest local detail bears an
epiphanic charge . . . 'Bravo, ' thinks Keely, 'f . . king brava.'
On finishing "Eyrie," I felt much the same." --Geordie Williamson,
"The Australian
"
Praise for "Breath"
"Stunning in the depth of its audacity . . . Limitlessly beautiful
prose." --"The Washington Post Book World
""Darkly exhilara
""Eyrie" is a fine work by any standard. It tackles myths of
prosperity and success in a way that is not always comfortable, but
that stirs deep thought. It is rich in compassion and affectionate
towards the unlovely. It has a strong belief that no journey ends
at the halfway mark. "Eyrie" is a novel for which our culture has
been in urgent need." --Michael McGirr, "The Age" (Australia)
"["Eyrie"] bears witness to how the sprawling suburban world of
this older generation, so often perched on the edge of wilder
natural landscapes, has been tidied up, boxed in, the ecology of
childhood imagination narrowed to PlayStation and satellite dish.
Mostly though, it is a clear-eyed yet compassionate depiction of
the underclass that lives off the crumbs of the resource boom . . .
However elaborate your analysis of "Eyrie", the novel stands, like
all of the author's work, on its ability to marry sophistication
and simplicity. Page by page it is an engrossing novel; the reader
is moved and enraged in equal measure by the plain human story of
Keely and his beautiful, battered adoptive family. You long for the
good guy to win. You pray and ache for a fresh start for them all.
And, as ever, it is couched in the prose of a writer on whom
nothing is lost, for whom the tiniest local detail bears an
epiphanic charge . . . 'Bravo, ' thinks Keely, 'f . . king brava.'
On finishing "Eyrie", I felt much the same." --Geordie Williamson,
"The Australian
"
Praise for "Breath"
"Stunning in the depth of its audacity . . . Limitlessly beautiful
prose." --"The Washington Post Book World
""Darkly exhilarating . . . A tautly gorgeous meditation on the
inescapable human addiction to 'the monotony of drawing breath, '
whether you want to or not." --"The New York Times Book Review
"
"Both a hymn to the beauty of flying on water and a sober
assessment of the costs of losing one's balance, in every sense of
the word." --"The New Yorker"
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