Dirt music : a novel / Tim Winton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winton, Tim.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Western Australia--Fiction.

Western Australia.

Alienation (Social psychology)--Fiction.

Alienation (Social psychology).

Middle-aged women--Fiction.

Middle-aged women.

Hitchhiking--Fiction.

Hitchhiking.

Fishers--Fiction.

Fishers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Love stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

401 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Scribner trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Originally published: Sydney : Picador, 2001.

ISBN:

0743228480

9780743228480

OCLC:

51900267

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