Island Home: A Landscape Memoir
By Tim Winton
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Tim Winton
Tim Winton grew up on the coast of Western Australia, where he continues to live. He is the author of eighteen books. His epic novel Cloudstreet was adapted for the theater and has been performed around the world. His two most recent novels, Dirt Music and The Riders, were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award three times, and in 1998 the Australian National Trust declared Winton a national living treasure. The Turning has already won the 2005 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
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Reviews for Island Home
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoy this author. This memoir of sorts explains why the author is the way he is, but it also does a good Job of explaining the need for Australians to travel, and the restlessness so many of them seem to have.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As Tim Winton said, 'I grew up on the world's largest island.' This ‘island’, Australia, or continent as most people think of it, has had humans living there for thousands of years. These original people had over these millennia to come to an incredibly in-depth understanding of their landscape and how to tread lightly on it. It was a similar relationship to his locality that inspired Tim Winton as a child. Growing up in Karrinyup amongst the coastal landscape of beaches, rock pools and swamps meant for a fantastic childhood, but also the very soul of the land percolated into his very being and became the well of inspiration for his writing.
His experiences growing up also gave him a passionate desire to see the wildest places of his nation saved for future generations. For the past 200 years, the European immigrants have taken much from the land and the native Aboriginals, and have left it polluted and devastated. Winton has spent time in the UK and other places, but the bond with this hard and frequently dangerous landscape have had a lasting impression on him. This is an enjoyable book to read as Winton is such a talented author and it is a good companion volume to Land’s Edge, which I think is even better than this. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This extremely well written book brings the West Australian landscape alive and is a wonderful example of how we are part of our landscape and need to embrace this experience. It is like a series of place-based vignettes where the landscape contributes to the understanding of historical and social issues in each chapter.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A meditation on Australia, the coast and its unique environment... perhaps I expected a little bit more - but only because Winton is one of my favourites.