Shallows

✍ Scribed by Winton, Tim

• Book ID: 109330491
• Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 263 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781742537375

✦ Synopsis

'The prose and learning may even stand up to Melville himself ... The elegance of language, the grandeur of nature being described – all this is dazzling, dazzling. It makes the heart pound.' Los Angeles Times

Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passing defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins on the beaches outside their town, and when Queenie Cookson, a local girl, joins the Greenies to make amends for the crimes of her whaling ancestors, it can only throw everything into chaos.

'A major work by anyone's standards ... He is capable of lines of pure lyricism ... Language is, in Tim Winton's hands, a powerful and finely-tuned instrument.' Washington Post

'Sparsely populated with intense, brooding loners ... A profound and inspiring work of fiction.' The...