Island Home

Nonfiction

Island Home

A Landscape Memoir
"Insightful and vibrant . . . A love song to Australia."
GUARDIAN
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“I grew up on the world’s largest island.” This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton’s beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia’s unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped him and his writing.

For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is as much a living presence as any character. What is true of his work is also true of his life: from boyhood, his relationship with the world around him—rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp—was as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, with its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance, and learned to see landscape as a living process. In Island Home, Winton brings this landscape—and its influence on the island nation’s identity and art—vividly to life through personal accounts and environmental history.

Wise, rhapsodic, exalted—in language as unexpected and wild as the landscape it describes—Island Home is a brilliant, moving portrait of Australia from one of its finest writers.

ISBN:
9781571311245
Publish Date: 
05/16/2017
Pages: 
256
Size: 
6 × 8.5 × 0.75 in
Weight: 
11 oz
Author

Tim Winton has published over two dozen books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He has received the Miles Franklin Award four times and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Island Home is his first work of memoir published in the United States. He lives in Western Australia.

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Milkweed Staff – 05/16/2017

Today marks the official U.S. publication of Tim Winton's acclaimed memoir, Island Home . The author of twenty-eight books for...