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Title: Dirt Music : A Novel by Tim Winton ISBN: 0-7432-2848-0 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing, spare and lyrical story
Comment: I was amazed at this book, written in such spare prose, so few adjectives.... yet, the characters came alive as I read. In some ways, this was a bit like Hemingway, yet Winton has a voice all his own, Australian, yet universal.
I loved the way the inner life of the characters unfolded, revealing so much through action and reaction. And the environment, the mis en place of Western Australia, added to the sense of place and time these characters lived in, as they struggled to find their place in the world, and with one another.
Luthor is one of the most original characters I've met in a book. He was a revelation. His self imposed trials, endured in the wilderness, at first so meaningless, becomes profound as the experience unfolds for us to share.
Georgie is a woman as lost to her needs, as Luthor is lost in the tropical jungles. No sense of herself, no grasp on what she really wants, her quest to find Luthor is really a quest to find herself.
I just loved this book. I felt I was discovering a fresh and exciting talent during my reading, and only later discovered the wonderful body of work Winton has already produced. He's young, he's talented and this book simply haunts me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book from a brilliant writer
Comment: Like all great writers Tim Winton can make the very ordinary seem extraordinary. The storyline of this novel revolves around three characters. Each is dissatisfied with their lives for different reasons. Georgie is bored and losing interest in her current partner Jim, a successful fisherman who is still nursing the emotional scars caused by the death of his wife. Lu Fox is in an eternal struggle with seemingly everyone as the town loner and illegal fisherman. The triangle is formed when Lu helps a stranded Georgie whose car has broken down in the vast plains outside their town in WA. Their fling is very brief as Lu is run out of town for his covert raids on the town's important fishing waters.
The impression Georgie and Lu make on each other ensures that their thoughts bring them closer despite Lu's attempts at physical isolation in the remote top end of Australia.
Winton creates interesting characters, constantly struggling with their past as well as each other. He also has a special talent at somehow incorporating the natural environment of Western Australia into the lives of the novel's characters, the land is as alive and furtive as they are, as harsh and unforgiving as it is beautiful and vast, it is real frontier country and as such the characters endure and are molded by its extremities in their quest to find each other and their lost selves. You don't so much read about this countryside as smell, taste and become immersed in it along with the three protagonists.
Rating: 1
Summary: Well written, maybe, but Fatally Flawed... November 24, 2003
Comment: There is a major error in this book which disturbs me greatly when I think that this book was even nominated for the Booker Prize. Jim Buckridge is 48 years old. The book clearly states this fact. Lu Fox happens to be 35 which is utterly impossible in terms of the storyline. Fox remembers Jim Buckridge at White Point Jetty when Jim was 11? How? I know this is a fictional piece, however, that is a leap of faith I can't take where Winton is concerned. If we were dealing with Sci-Fi maybe I could forgive him.
Winton constantly states that Fox can't believe that "she is real" - refering to Georgie. It is even the last sentence in the book which seems to be a feeble attempt to tie everything together. It simply doesn't work because Fox himself cannot exist in this story. "He's not real."
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Title: The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho ISBN: 0062502182 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 10 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Magus by John Fowles ISBN: 0440351626 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0553208845 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel ISBN: 1565846567 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor ISBN: 014200331X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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