- Middle-aged women, Fishers, Hitchhiking, Fiction
Set in Western Australia, Dirt music tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman. 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"--Music you can play on a verandah or porch without electricity.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Tim Winton
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 436
- Publisher
- Picador, Bolinda Publishing, Compass Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743228022
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Tim Winton is an Australian novelist and actively involved in the environmental movement.
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