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by Tim Winton (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (4 Jul 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330490265
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330490269
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,879 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Written in seemingly effortless prose that never puts a foot wrong' Sunday Times

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Georgie Jutland has lost her way. Living with a fisherman she doesn't love, feeling alienated from her neighbours, she spends her nights in a blur of vodka and pointless loitering in cyberspace. Until one morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she looks up from her computer screen to see a shadow on the beach below her. Luther Fox, the local poacher. Jinx. Outcast. So begins an unlikely alliance. Set in the wild landscape of Western Australia, this is a novel about the odds of breaking with the past, a journey across landscapes within and without, and a love story about people stifled by grief, regret and lost dreams. 'Winton keeps writing fiction that makes the novel feel alive to a continent of possibilities' - "Evening Standard". 'Winton is not a great Australian novelist; he is a great novelist, full stop' - "The Times".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another Strong Scarred Work, 15 Aug 2003
By A. Weston "Adrian Weston" (Brighton, UK) - See all my reviews
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Tim Winton's books are not light and easy. His characters are the walking wounded, scarred marred and often barely surviving. He besets them with harsh tragedies, violent accidents, abandonment. Sometimes their situations are so dire that you might want to put the book aside and go into the fresh air just to know that life isn't as bleak and cruel as he paints it. When you return to the narrative, wary and battle weary the chinks of light begin to appear.

Dirt Music reduced me to tears - Fox the sole survivor of a brutal family accident, an outcast of a harsh unforgiving Australian community finds love and redemption of a sort through Georgie, a woman who is as adrift as he. The novel is surprisingly suspenseful, so I won't write any more of the actual events, but God is it good! Tim Winton stands with Janette Turner Hospital as a major talent who has sprung from the arid ground of Australia.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Cinematic Experience, 23 Nov 2003
By Martin (London) - See all my reviews
I am not an avid reader, nor prone to writing reviews, but this book is something special.

What makes it for me is the time and effort taken to embed the characters and the plot into the western Australian environment. In essence it is a very simple story, but the magic is in the telling; a stark story told with an eloquent richness.

I found it a real pleasure to find characters explicitly shaped by, and articulated through, the intensity of the landscape around them. It reminds me of Steinbeck in part, and conjures up expansive visual images.

I stayed up till the early hours to finish this book, and - if I have a criticism - it would be that ending comes together a little too conveniently. A minor grumble though, the journey the book takes you on is quite exceptional.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars He sings. He's sung., 24 Sep 2006
By jfp2006 (PARIS/France) - See all my reviews
This is a stunning novel in many unexpected ways, and for a newspaper such as the Mail on Sunday to say that it is "a book about the possibility and power of love" hardly even skims the surface of its beauty and its complexity.
With precious little knowledge of Australian literature, I confess to having approached it warily, and mainly on the recommendation of a trustworthy friend, although also on the strength of its having been shortlisted for the Booker Prize [in 2002]. Also - and this seems to happen more and more often these days - the blurb on the back of the paperback edition is slightly misleading: it introduces us to the two main characters, Georgie Jutland, "stranded with a fisherman she doesn't love", and Luther Fox. "Outcast". And "so begins an unlikely alliance".
But this is not particularly accurate, given that, for much of the novel, after an initial idyllic but thwarted episode, Georgie and Luther find themselves many hundreds of miles apart. And Tim Winton's novel slowly but inexorably turns into a fascinating thriller, as disturbing elements from the past slowly emerge, concerning the tragic history of Fox's family, and the role played in that tragedy by Jim Buckridge, Georgie's doltish, swaggering and somewhat sadistic partner.
From the fishing community of White Point in Western Australia, the reader travels northwards with Fox into an increasingly hostile and wild landscape against which he has to pit his wits constantly in order to survive. It is a journey into an Australian heart of darkness, and Fox, despite the music in his soul, is sometime hard pressed to continue making sense of what he sees as "a life writ in mud".
I think a couple of previous reviewers have maybe been slightly over-critical of the way the novel ends: slightly contrived as it is, it is far from being clichéd, and certainly not melodramatic.
And though I know one is not supposed to separate the style from the substance, a special mention for Tim Winton's highly original writing. The daring combinations of words, whether it's "a stiff coffee", "runty melons", "generic furniture", "a snarl of vines", "red dripping tomatoes" [the list is endless] come off, every single time. "Dirt Music" is a book suffused with poetry and music of the most intoxicating variety. And will have me reading more Tim Winton very soon.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not dirt music to my ears
Read this for the book club.A disappointment.A long rambling novel which lacks any warmth or any real direction. Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Glowacki

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply brilliant!
Simply brilliant because brilliant in its simplicity. Literally un-put-downable. Australian to the core: everything likeable and contemptible about the place: the humour, the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. D. Tremellen

4.0 out of 5 stars Thin plot, daft ending, but wonderful writing
What makes this book special is that it paints such beautiful pictures of Western Australia. It's a long and sumptuous read, and I had to put the book down, often, just to enjoy... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Phil

1.0 out of 5 stars Over long and tedious
Looking at many of the other reviews of this book, I began wondering if we were actually reading the same book. I found it very heavy going. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. Kevin Green

5.0 out of 5 stars intriguing
what intrigues me is the reviewer who gave this book one star.. yet still managed to write quite a bit about it - I am sure she was right in her own way.. and yet... Read more
Published 16 months ago by SWH

1.0 out of 5 stars Short on story/ long on padding
There is nothing light and frivolous about Tim Winton's novel, "Dirt Music". I know he's Australian and I know that he wins awards, but I had to struggle through this book... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Lili Gans

5.0 out of 5 stars superb
What a find! Read this through a book club and I just can't wait to read more of his work. He is a truly accomplished writer. An umistakable Aussie male voice. Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2006 by Laurel Champion

5.0 out of 5 stars My first Tim Winton
I was only recently turned onto Tim Winton. Having grown up in rural South Australia we read Colin Thiele at school rather than Winton (as most Sand Gropers would've)... Read more
Published on 27 April 2006 by Aussie Tom

4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing...but the ending!!!
This is an absorbing tale of two loners who come together in the wilds of White Point, a coastal fishing community in western Australia. Read more
Published on 22 Feb 2006 by pseudopanax

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
This book is fantastic. Its beautifully written yet raw and rugged as the landscape it paints. I really admire Winton as a writer as he has proved to be consistently readable but... Read more
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