Тим Уинтон - автор 9 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Музыка грязи, Хижина пастыря, Breath. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Джорджи Ютленд под сорок, профессию медсестры и романтические мечты о родственной душе она променяла на тихую жизнь домохозяйки в рыбацком поселке на западном побережье Австралии. Ночи напролет, пока домашние спят, она сидит в Интернете и тихо спивается. Но внезапно в ее судьбу входит Лютер Фокс – браконьер, бывший музыкант, одинокая душа. Изгой. Действие этого романа с подлинно приключенческим с...
Пятнадцатилетний Джекси Клактон сворачивает на подъездную дорожку своего дома в крошечном захолустном городке в Западной Австралии. Его любимая мать недавно умерла от рака. Его жестокий пьяница отец – городской мясник – больше не может мучить жену, поэтому избивает сына. И сейчас Джекси смотрит на ноги отца, торчащие из-под пикапа. Машина упала с домкрата – отец мертв. Вот только никто в городе не...
In the first part of the book, the narrator, Bruce Pike, recounts his boyhood friendship with Ivan "Loonie" Loon. As young boys, Pikelet and Loonie dare each other to perform dangerous stunts in the local river. When they become teenagers, they take up surfing and meet a former professional surfer named Sando, who leads them to new levels of recklessness. The novel explores the boys' youthful...
Cloudstreet - a broken-down house of former glories on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories of its own, a place of shudders and shadows and spirits. From separate catastrophes, two families flee to the city and find themselves sharing this great sighing structure and beginning their lives again from scratch. Together they roister and rankle in a house that begins as a ...
Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and seven-year-old daughter. After two years in Europe they are finally settling down. He sees a new life before them, a stable outlook, and a cottage in the Irish countryside that he's renovated by hand. He's waited, sweated on this reunion. He does not like to be alone - he's that kind of ma...
I grew up on the world's largest island.' From his childhood, Tim Winton's relationship with the landscape around him - Australia's swamps and bush, rockpools, seacaves and scrub - has been as vital as any other connection. Whether camping in hidden inlets, walking in the high rocky desert fringe, or diving at Ningaloo Reef, Winton has felt the place seep into him - its rhyt...
In these extraordinary tales about ordinary people from ordinary places, Tim Winton describes turnings of all kinds: second thoughts, changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, abrupt transitions. The seventeen stories overlap to paint a convincing and cohesive picture of a world where people struggle against the terrible weight of their past and challenge the lives they have m...
Lockie Leonard, Legend was written in 1997. After surviving his first year of high school, settling into a new town and his first love, Lockie's world of weirdness continues.