Dirt Music
By Tim Winton
May 2008
Macmillan
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9780330490269
480 pages, 5 5/8 x 8"
$19.95 Paper Original
Georgie Jutland has lost her way. Living with a fisherman she doesn't love, feeling alienated from her neighbours, she spends her nights in a blur of vodka and pointless loitering in cyberspace. Until one morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she looks up from her computer screen to see a shadow on the beach below her. Luther Fox, the local poacher. Jinx. Outcast.
So begins an unlikely alliance. Set in the wild landscape of Western Australia, this is a novel about the odds of breaking with the past, a journey across landscapes within and without, and a love story about people stifled by grief, regret and lost dreams.
'Winton keeps writing fiction that makes the novel feel alive to a continent of possibilities' Evening Standard
'Winton is not a great Australian novelist; he is a great novelist, full stop' The Times