Dirt Music

Winner of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Christina Stead Award, WA Premier's Book of the Year, Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award, Goodreading Award-Readers Choice Book of the Year

Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman--a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, Fox grew melons and counted stars and loved playing his guitar. Now, his life has become a "project of forgetting." Not until he meets Georgie Jutland, the wife of White Point's most prosperous fisherman, does Fox begin to dream again and hear the dirt music--"anything you can play on a verandah or porch," he tells Georgie, "without electricity." Like the beat of a barren heart, nature is never silent. Ambitious and perfectly calibrated, Dirt Music resonates with suspense, emotion, and timeless truths.

Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 05/13/2003
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.91d
ISBN13: 9780743228480
ISBN10: 0743228480
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Sea Stories
- Fiction | Sagas