An Open Swimmer

"An Open Swimmer" by Tim Winton, published by Penguin Publishing Group. An Open Swimmer, winner of the Australian Vogel Award, is the remarkable first novel by Tim Winton, one of Australia's most loved and respected writers''Amid brooding images of mutilation and guilt, awakening sexuality and displacement of ideals . . . Winton draws together a delicate pattern of images and tensions and mystery. His first novel, it is a work of energy and restraint.'' - Helen Daniel, Good ReadingJerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra’s friends and family want to know when he will finish university, find a girl and make his mark. But they don't understand about Sean's mother, Jewel, or the bush or the fish with the pearl. They think he needs a job, but what Jerra is searching for is more elusive. Only the sea, and perhaps the old man who lives in a shack beside it, can help. What happened with Sean’s mother, Jewel? And why is he searching for the fish with the pearl?An Open Swimmer, the story of a young man’s search for meaning and redemption, won the Australian/Vogel’s when Tim Winton was only twenty-one.Tim Winton has published twenty-nine books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Book details: 163 pages, published 1997. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.