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Original Title:	The Turning
ISBN:	0330421387 (ISBN13: 9780330421386)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (2005), Queensland Premier's
Literary Awards:	for Fiction (2005), Colin Roderick Award (2004)

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Set on a coastal stretch of Western Australia, Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds — changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world. With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not what they had hoped.

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Title	:	The Turning
Author	:	Tim Winton
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 317 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2004 by Picador USA
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Australia

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Years ago I accompanied a friend to a dance performance in New York City. A dancer-choreographer from California, shed come east especially to see the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. They danced to John Cages three note composition 433. From my point of view, there wasnt much going on. The performers padded onto the stage, took a position, and maintained it for the duration of what seemed to me like mostly silence. I sat bewildered, but my friend leaned forward in her seat transfixed. She gasped

The Turning is an excellent collection of loosely connected short stories. The wild and harsh coastline of Western Australia is a perfect backdrop to these stories about life in a working class town. I've read three of Winton's novel prior to this and he hasn't disappointed me yet.

I have to say that the start of the book (at least the first two chapters) was not at all to my taste. Perhaps it was the lack of depth, maybe the clumsy rawness of it all, or the forlorn tone (which continues throughout the book). I wasn't keen to continue reading, but it would have to happen eventually and one of my friends who had already read it held steadfast to her claim that it would get better - that the story would be intertwined and become more than it may at first appear. So I read

A really engaging collection of interlinked stories in which there is an overall sadness. The characters all seem a little broken, in some cases very broken, and struggle through life, trying to sort themselves out, looking for healing, or for answers...or both. The more I think about it, the more I think 'sad' is the best word for it. The overall feeling was of regret and despair, and yet I didn't feel bad, or depressed as a result. I still felt as though there were snippets of hope and some

Hearing film director Bob Connolly being interviewed about the film adaptation of this volume of short stories made me pay attention to Winton, which I havent done since reading and loving Cloudstreet more than fifteen years ago. The Turning consists of seventeen interconnected short stories, each of which deals with a significant moment in the life of the central protagonist a moment of change, of insight or of revelation which reflects the turning of the title. One character, Vic Lang,

Wow, what vivid writing. My mouth dropped flipping through the pages of the first story.For example...BIG WORLDThe story starts with two boys failing their high school exams. They start working at a meat factory, eventually deciding to buy a used VW and head North.It's a survival thing, making yourself a small target...His old man preferred him to be a dolt. My mother expected me to be an academic.This story is both deep and extremely beautiful when it comes to Winton's descriptions of people

I admit it's taken me a long time to finish this book of short stories, but I read the second half in one sitting and it was only then that I began to fall in love with it as it was only then that I realised the stories are linked. To be fair to myself I was reading the stories in the first half of the book weeks or months apart so I'd forget the characters/incidents that linked them. But in the second half of the book I began to see that there is a larger picture being painted of the community.