The Shepherd's Hut - Softcover

Winton, Tim

 
9781509863846: The Shepherd's Hut
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509863842 ISBN 13: 9781509863846
Verlag: Picador, 2019

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Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Most of all it is about what it takes to keep hope alive in a parched and brutal world.

For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for.

And so Jaxie runs. There’s just one person in the world who understands him, but to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands of Western Australia. It is a place that harbours criminals and threatens to kill those who haven't reckoned with its hot, waterless vastness. This is a journey only a dreamer – or a fugitive – would attempt.

'A page-turning heartbreaker' – Emma Donoghue, author of Room.

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Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). In 2023 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to environmental advocacy. He lives in Western Australia.

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‘Outstanding . . . compulsively suspenseful . . . dazzlingly good’ Sunday Times
‘Exhilarating, compelling . . . elegiac, transcendent’ Guardian
‘Remarkable . . . astonishing . . . extraordinary’ Scotsman
What does it take to keep hope alive in a brutal world?
For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead – and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie to be careful what he wishes for.
And so Jaxie runs. There’s just one person in the world who understands him, but to reach her he’ll have to cross the saltlands of Western Australia. It is a place that harbours criminals and threatens to kill those who haven’t reckoned with its hot, waterless vastness. This is a journey only a dreamer – or a fugitive – would attempt . . .
‘Wonderful. Brutal, agonizing, tender’ Sarah Winman
‘Unforgettable . . . heartstopping’ Mail on Sunday
‘Raw, brutal and merciless . . . Holden Caulfield, you have been eclipsed’ Spectator
‘Transfixing’ Philip Hensher

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509863842
ISBN 13 
9781509863846
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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