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| Original Title: | Dirt Music |
| ISBN: | 0330490265 (ISBN13: 9780330490269) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Georgie Jutland, Jim Buckridge |
| Setting: | Western Australia(Australia) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2002), New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (2002), Miles Franklin Literary Award (2002), Western Australian Premier's Book Award (2001), Kiriyama Prize Nominee for Fiction (2002) |
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| Title | : | Dirt Music |
| Author | : | Tim Winton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 465 pages |
| Published | : | May 30th 2008 by Picador (first published January 1st 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Literature. Contemporary |
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Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman, a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain.One morning Fox is observed poaching by Georgie Jutland. Chance, or a kind of willed recklessness, has brought Georgie into the life and home of Jim Buckridge, the most prosperous fisherman in the area and a man who loathes poachers, Fox above all. But she's never fully settled into Jim's grand house on the water or into the inbred community with its history of violent secrets. After Georgie encounters Fox, her tentative hold on conventional life is severed. Neither of them would call it love, but they can't stay away from each other no matter how dangerous it is, and out on White Point it is very dangerous.
Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music is a love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past and about the lure of music. Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is "anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity." Even in the wild, Luther cannot escape it. There is, he discovers, no silence in nature.
Ambitious, perfectly calibrated, Dirt Music resonates with suspense and supercharged emotion, and it confirms Tim Winton's status as the preeminent Australian novelist of his generation.
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Dirt Music is one of those books that gets under your skin. Comes into your bed with you; changes your dreams; travels with you throughout the mundane details of everyday life. Winton's descriptive prose works both externally in its depiction of the natural land - the sea and desert of Western Australia which makes up its setting, and internally, in the way it goes deep inside the pain and anxieties of its characters, as they struggle to free themselves from tremendous damage, and paralysis.This is not a love story. This is a story of when two outcasts in a small town come together and share their broken lives.Georgie is with Jim Buckridge, someone who is revered in the small fishing town of White Point. His sons show her contempt but she feels they love her deep down but cant show it.Luther Fox, destroyed by a horrific accident that took his whole family has been living by stealing fish since. A xenophobic neighbour mutilates his dog and runs him out of town once he finds out
Dirt Music is story never give up on your dream. Georgie Jutland is a forty-year-old woman who was bored with her life. However, this change when one day was walking along the beach Georgie met Luther Fox, and her life was changed forever. The readers of Dirt Music will follow Georgie and Luther's to see what happens to them. I not sure why but I always have problems reading Tim Winton's books. I find that I can never really fully absorb Tim Winton stories as I do with other writers. However, I
I'm on a bit of a Tim Winton kick at the moment. For years after reading - and loving - Cloudstreet I ignored his work. Now it seems that I can't get enough of it. And yet, for some of the time I was listening to the audiobook version of this novel, I wasn't sure how I felt about it. It has everything that I love about Winton's writing: down-to-earth Australian English, realistic dialogue, flawed and complex characters, rich symbolism, striking imagery and a strong connection with the natural
I don't agree with Karen that this book is overly blokeish or laddish. I'm on page 100 and really enjoying it so far. The main character so far(Georgie) is a woman.
4 1/2 stars ... This is my second reading, and obvious the first time, long ago, didn't resonate. This time I absolutely loved it. I even understood the ending. VERY satisfying.
This was odd. This book has 500 pages and I couldn't stop reading it although I didnt like it. It's a book about West and North Australia. It sure is contemporary, if contemporary means deep emotions, metaphysics, mystery, heartbreaking love, suffocating pain, guilt, remorse and redemption. Connected with nature but that is I suppose normal if you live in Australia. But, it failed to be memorable and I didnt believe these characters and their love triangle was weird. They were bordering between
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