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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. A fine novel about a good mans fall from grace, but it is also about trying to live, or to at least make some sense of the effort it requires to. His reputation in ruins, he finds himself holed up in a flat at the top of a grim highrise, looking down on the world hes fall. Tim wintons heartstopping, exhilarating eyrie asks how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the right thing. Tim winton s breath, winner of the miles franklin literary award, is a story about the wildness of youth and learning to live with its passing. Read eyrie a novel by tim winton available from rakuten kobo. It was shortlisted for the 2014 miles franklin literary award. In these extraordinary tales about ordinary people from ordinary places, tim winton describes turnings of all kinds. These stories are a wonderful introduction to his quirky fictional world gutsy, funny, lyrical but unpretentious independent tim wintons second shortstory collection explores the complexity of human relationships through the themes of futility and hope, revenge and redemption, birth and death that twist through each tale in turn, emerging, re. How do the novels locales affect the way the characters see themselves.
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From the ubiquitous publicity, i was familiar with the central idea welleducated tom keely has fallen on hard times and has locked himself away in a fremantle highrise. As a funny, compassionate and gripping study of family difference and solidarity, eyrie resembles tim winton s most famous novel, cloudstreet. Eyrie is tim winton s heartstopping novel written with breathtaking tenderness. Ultimately, though, it is about a mans quest for redemption, and as he goes about his task winton ensures that we root for keely every step of the way.
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