Island Home A Landscape Memoir Tim Winton by Tim Winton 9781760142230, 1760142239 instant download after payment.

This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing

"Winton’s love letter to the vast island continent which has spawned all he has written... He gives praise to its grandeur in words as John Olsen and Emily Kngwarreye have done in paint... Winton’s Australia is teeming and brimming and shrieking and squawking with life."  -  Rick Fenely, The Sydney Morning Herald

For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is as much a living presence as any character, and what is true of his work is true of his life. From boyhood, his relationship with sea, scrub and swamp has been as vital as blood relations. The country has seeped into him, with its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance.

This is the story of how that relationship came to be, and also a passionate exhortation for all of us to feel the ground beneath our feet. Much more so than any political idea, the physical entity of Australia defines us, in ways we too often forget.

"Like Wordsworth, he understands and feels the “abiding power” of certain places... The writer of memoir can be triumphantly personal, quixotic, eccentric, risky, and daring. In Island Home, Winton is all of these. This most exquisite of prose writers eases stylistic discipline out a notch or two..."   -  Brian Matthews, Australian Book Review

Wise, rhapsodic, exalted, Island Home is the story of how that relationship came to be, and also a passionate exhortation for all of us to feel the ground beneath our feet. 

‘This country leans in on you. Like family. To my way of thinking, it is family.’