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Dirt Music A Novel
by Winton, Tim
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0743228022
- ISBN 13
- 9780743228022
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0743228022 . Unmarked book in bright DJ with thin crease to front flap; 1.24 x 9.5 x 6.46 Inches; 411 pages; <P> Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman -- a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain. <P> One morning Fox is observed poaching by Georgie Jutland. Chance, or a kind of willed recklessness, has brought Georgie into the life and home of Jim Buckridge, the most prosperous fisherman in the area and a man who loathes poachers, Fox above all. But she's never fully settled into Jim's grand house on the water or into the inbred community with its history of violent secrets. After Georgie encounters Fox, her tentative hold on conventional life is severed. Neither of them would call it love, but they can't stay away from each other no matter how dangerous it is -- and out on White Point it is very dangerous. <P> Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, <I>Dirt Music</I> is a love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past and about the lure of music. Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is "anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity." Even in the wild, Luther cannot escape it. There is, he discovers, no silence in nature. <P> Ambitious, perfectly calibrated, <I>Dirt Music</I> resonates with suspense and supercharged emotion -- and it confirms Tim Winton's status as the preeminent Australian novelist of his generation. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27328
- Title
- Dirt Music A Novel
- Author
- Winton, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0743228022
- ISBN 13
- 9780743228022
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0743228022, Contemporary, British, World Literature, Literature & Fiction, Books, Contemporary, Literary
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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