The Boy Behind The Curtain Tim Winton by Tim Winton 9781760142377, 1760142379 instant download after payment.

This highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton’s most intimate and revealing work yet. Along with Island Home and Land’s Edge (both also first published in paperback in 2017), it forms the remarkable culmination of Winton’s autobiographical trilogy, showing our finest novelist also to be one of our finest writers of non-fiction

"The Boy Behind the Curtain roots you to the spot, forces you to ask questions – about yourself, about the way we live. Sinewy and lyrical by turns, Winton’s is an authentic Australian voice to trumpet to a world audience."  -  Morag Fraser, Australian Book Review

In Tim Winton’s fiction, chaos shapes the lives of his characters. So too Winton’s own life. The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind The Curtain take us behind the scenes, revealing the accidents, both serendipitous and traumatic, that have influenced his view of life and fuelled his distinctive artistic vision. Behind it all, from risk-taking youth to surprise-averse middle age, has been the crazy punt of staking everything on becoming a writer.

"He makes complex art seem simple... A body of non-fiction work that is (unsurprisingly) beautiful and brilliant and provocative, and (surprisingly) revealing... It is this sight of the sacred in the ordinary that probably accounts for some part of why Winton's writing recedes from his imitators' reach."  -  Malcolm Knox, Sydney Morning Herald

By turns impassioned, funny, joyous, and astonishing, this is Tim Winton’s most personal book to date, an insight into the man who’s held us enthralled for three decades and helped us reshape our view of ourselves.