After my Tim Winton rant a post or so ago, I found this in my brothers bookshelf and helped myself to it. It’s early Tim Winton and a great book although I think he’s an even better writer now. It was clearly a text from my brothers school days, so my version had a few interesting notations in the margins to add to the analysis.
Set in a small coastal Western Australian town where whaling is the key industry, it examines the issues of anti-whaling, small town mentality, history, family and all the other themes that Winton is reknowned for writing about; love, loneliness, water etc.
Winton’s way of not filling in the gaps just keeps the pages turning. Great.
