内容简介
'Tim Winton is the real thing: a writer who can photograph athought and pluck out the beat of a soul on a washing line' -"Scotland on Sunday". In this, Tim Winton's first collection ofshort stories, the world he paints is often harsh and disturbing,inhabited by isolated, unforgiving characters. It is a world atonce familiar, filled with the trappings of home and family, andyet also strangely twisted; a world where casual brutality andunexpected death are never far from the surface. Evident in a younggirl's violent temper once the eggs she has so jealously guardedfinally hatch, or in the careless indifference of the womanstepping over a soldier's spreadeagled body, Tim Winton's world isa place where dysfunction and disorder constantly threaten theequilibrium. But there is compassion and beauty there too - whetherit's in the brush of a father's hand against his young son's cheek,or the neighbours who wait patiently to celebrate the arrival of anew baby. 'Winton is boisterous and lyrical by turns; his sense ofsentiment is unerringly accurate, his characters unforgettable. Theemotional control exercised over his anarchic world puts Winton inthe top drawer of Australian fiction' - "Daily Telegraph".'Winton's compassionate and humorous writing is nothing short ofmagnificent. If you can imagine Neighbours taken over by thewriting team of John Steinbeck and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, you'reclose' - "Time Out".