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Dirt Music (Picador) (Paperback)
Short Description for Dirt MusicShortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize, this is a generous, raw, captivating novel about the possibility and power of love.
Full description- Publisher: PICADOR
- Published: 30 May 2008
- Format: Paperback 480 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Adult & Contemporary Romance
- ISBN 13: 9780330490269 ISBN 10: 0330490265
- Sales rank: 19,555
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Full description for Dirt Music
'Generous, earthy and raw ...Mysteries don't come more heartfelt than this' Independent Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into domestic tedium and social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless loitering in cyberspace. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she looks up from the computer screen to see a shadow lurking on the beach below, and a dangerous new element enters her life. 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 love story about people stifled by grief or regret, whose dreams are lost, whose hopes have dried up. It's a journey across landscapes within and without, about the music that sometimes arises from the dust. '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
