On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton's days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun and surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled with mirages and the wind came in from the ocean, he was driven inside, to books. In the 'simple, peculiar shack' that his family borrowed each year there was a small library: a room with four walls of books, a world unto itself.
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir is a beautiful delicate memoir in which Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore - about diving, dunes, beachcombing - and the sense of being on the precarious, wondrous edge of things that haunts his novels. It is a book about the ebb and flow that became a way of life, and that shaped one of our finest writers.
'Both a serial romantic and a truly gifted novelist' - Mariella Frostrup, Mail on Sunday.
| ISBN: | 9781447203094 |
| Publication date: | 22nd May 2014 |
| Author: | Tim Winton |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 113 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Autobiography: writers Memoirs |
On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton's days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun and surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled with mirages and the wind came in from the ocean, he was driven inside, to books. In the 'simple, peculiar shack' that his family borrowed each year there was a small library: a room with four walls of books, a world unto itself.
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir is a beautiful delicate memoir in which Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore - about diving, dunes, beachcombing - and the sense of being on the precarious, wondrous edge of things that haunts his novels. It is a book about the ebb and flow that became a way of life, and that shaped one of our finest writers.
'Both a serial romantic and a truly gifted novelist' - Mariella Frostrup, Mail on Sunday.
Land's Edge features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Autobiography: writers, Memoirs
Land's Edge is available in Paperback, Hardback
Land's Edge was written by Tim Winton and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Land's Edge has 113 pages
£8.09