Island Home

A Landscape Memoir

Tim Winton, David Tredinnick, Jed Goodluck

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Bolinda Publishing
01 November 2015

The natural world, in Tim Winton's novels, is as much a living presence as any character, and what is true of his work is true of his life. From boyhood, his relationship with sea, scrub and swamp has been as vital as blood relations. The country has seeped into him, with its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance.

This is the story of how that relationship came to be, and also a passionate exhortation for all of us to feel the ground beneath our feet. Much more so than any political idea, the physical entity of Australia defines us, in ways we too often forget. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted, Island Home is a beautiful, evocative, sometimes provocative, investigation of how the land makes us who we are.

By: Tim Winton
Producer: Jed Goodluck
Read by: David Tredinnick
Imprint: Bolinda Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 9781489027955
ISBN 10: 1489027955
Publication Date: 01 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Island Home: A Landscape Memoir

'Winton's love letter to the vast island continent which has spawned all he has written ... He gives praise to its grandeur in words as John Olsen and Emily Kngwarreye have done in paint ... Winton's Australia is teeming and brimming and shrieking and squawking with life.' -- Sydney Morning Herald 'Tim Winton's Island Home isn't memoir, it's a cultural call to arms ... Winton remains one of the finest place-painters in Australian literature.' -- The Guardian 'Island Home is thus part political manifesto that presents a profound challenge to traditional rural conservatism as well as to the right in general. Conservatives say they love their country. Winton lays bare how very destructive of it some of their actions have been.' -- The Monthly