Dirt Music (Unabridged)
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Tim Winton's classic love song to land and place, full of unforgettable characters, is now a feature film starring Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Macdonald and David Wenham.
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At 40, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrimination. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she sees, a shadow drifting up the beach below – a loner called Luther Fox, with danger in his wake.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Vividly evoking the rough coast of Western Australia, Tim Winton conjures a conflicted love story that’s as much about setting as characters. In the insular fishing port of White Point, 40-year-old Georgie Jutland is adrift in an uninspired relationship with a wealthy local widower. She’s further destabilised by the arrival of poacher Luther Fox, an unwelcome figure in this tight-knit community. When Georgie and Luther collide, it sets off dangerous ripple effects across two feuding families. Read with a confiding, lived-in quality by Aussie actress Suzi Dougherty (Home and Away), Dirt Music showcases Winton’s sheer descriptive flair, complete with layered imagery and salty slang. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the novel was adapted into a 2019 film starring Kelly Macdonald and Garrett Hedlund.
