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The Turning Mass Market Paperback – 1 October 2014

by Tim Winton (Author)
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Each of the overlapping stories in Tim Winton's The Turning centres on a transformation; together they form the bestselling Australian collection of the last three decades.

Tim Winton's characters are people we're familiar with - their struggles and small triumphs are our own. Here they change in ways that are sometimes vast, sometimes indistinct, but every story illuminates things we take for granted. Even as some of these lives turn from expansive hope to defeated middle-age, there's a sense of greater possibility, fuelled by the great turning of time itself.

Now a major film starring Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Rose Byrne.

'The writing is frankly brilliant . . . Winton shows us how startling ordinary life is. And he does it in a way that's more amazing than if he had shown a ghost shimmering on the page.' Boston Globe

 'Each of these seventeen stories is a self-contained whole . . . yet the sequence reveals striking connections among seemingly disparate lives and experiences. The result is at times mysterious, moving and occasionally deeply unsettling.' Sydney Morning Herald

 'Winton is a poet of baffled souls . . . To read him is to be reminded not just of the possibilities of fiction but of the human heart.' The Times
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    Penguin
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    1 October 2014
  5. Dimensions
    13 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0143568833
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0143568834
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Each of the overlapping stories in Tim Winton's The Turning centres on a transformation; together they form the bestselling Australian collection of the last three decades.

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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). He lives in Western Australia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (1 October 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143568833
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143568834
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm
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Dave
5.0 out of 5 stars The turning
Reviewed in Australia on 13 November 2023
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Bought as a gift. Book looked good and was fast postage
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Steve
4.0 out of 5 stars One for the must read list!
Reviewed in Australia on 27 April 2019
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Love TW another great read
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Margaret Affleck
5.0 out of 5 stars A good book
Reviewed in Australia on 2 May 2023
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A good read...with some interesting themes.
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Trung
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in Australia on 22 November 2020
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mary leesie
5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking collection of short stories,
Reviewed in Australia on 17 January 2015
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As I read the first stories, I began to get excited. The book is so very believable it could easily be a story about your own life.
Same brilliant writing I found when reading Cloudstreet.
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JustMeVictoria_
4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Collection Of Connected Stories
Reviewed in Australia on 17 February 2019
A wonderful collection of short stories that look at the lives of ordinary people living in ordinary places.

The collection is made up of seventeen interconnecting stories, with some characters featuring in multiple stories as they reach pivotal moments in their lives - turnings as they reflect on what has been and look towards what's to come. From graduating high school, to first loves, parental abandonment, abusive relationships, and death, these stories look at the important moments people reach in life and how they tackle the future.

I've never read anything by Tim Winton before, so I wasn't really sure what to expect from this book. I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed each and everyone of the stories and Winton's writing style - I can see why he is such a highly praised Australian author. These stories feel so real, as if they are actually biographical rather than fictional.

What I enjoyed the most was seeing characters appear across multiple stories, so that we see them at different points in their lives - moments are referenced in other stories and expanded on. And the fact that all the stories take place in the same area, with characters in other stories making references to things that have happened in someone else's story, it feels as if you're reading a novel about the lives of a whole bunch of people living in the same community. Because of this, I enjoyed every single story, forgetting at times that they were in fact short stories.

This collection really surprised me, and I'm really glad I got the chance to read it - had I not needed to read it for university, I probably would not have picked it up. I am now really excited to try more of Tim Winton's work as I really enjoyed his writing style. I highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys short story collections, or if you are just trying the genre out. I'll definitely be revisiting several of these stories.
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Jinny
4.0 out of 5 stars Australia Cake
Reviewed in Australia on 21 February 2018
Each short story is a slice of Australiana, sugared with colloquialisms and the usual beautiful imagery you’d expect from Winton (water, fog, fire). It’s a great read, with many touching coming-of-age stories and some hard hitting commentary on police corruption, domestic violence and class/race discrimination. I loved it, although I feel like I spent too much time piecing together the character’s tales, as they reappear in confusing order and it’s up to the reader to assemble the slices. I wonder if it’s conservative of me to wonder if this would have been better as the full cake (a novel)?
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Zipidee
5.0 out of 5 stars A benchmark for short story collections
Reviewed in Australia on 29 November 2013
This is a stunning collection of interlinking short stories, each of them self-contained and worth reading in their own right. As I've come to expect from Winton, the writing is illustrative and rich; luminous beauty and imploding, almost unbearable darkness. In this world - as in life - things are complex and wonderful and awful, sometimes with the turning of a page. I felt the characters' joys and their pain, their obsessions and their regrets.

The 17 stories have been recently adapted into a series of films, made by individual film makers and featuring some of Australia's greatest actors - including Cate Blanchett, Miranda Otto and Hugo Weaving. And while I'm sure these film adaptions have been done brilliantly, I've yet to be convinced to go and see the movie. I don't feel the need. I feel like I've seen it already - by reading Winton's stunning prose. If you haven't seen the movie - and even if you have - you must read this book.
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Christopher R. Siddle
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended.
Reviewed in Canada on 9 June 2016
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Almost as rich as stories by Atwood or Munro, Winton's interweaving of characters from the little Western Australian town of Angelus fascinates and entertains. Highly recommended.
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Karen S
5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, intricate and incredibly well told
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 April 2015
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Never heard of Tim Winton before reading this collection, but now I am a convert. Beautifully crafted stories, expertly interwoven. Clever, sad, humorous and uplifting.
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Rita
5.0 out of 5 stars good!
Reviewed in Italy on 26 December 2014
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Libro arrivato in perfette condizioni e celermente! Consiglio a chiunque voglia farsi una bella lettura ma non troppo pesante. Il oibro è in lingua inglese ma ne vale la pena!
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Foster Corbin
5.0 out of 5 stars A "Full-On" Writer
Reviewed in the United States on 20 December 2005
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In Tim Winton's latest gift to the reading public-- and what a gift it is-- he includes 17 stories, at least half of which are printed here for the first time. There are similarities in many of them. They are often set in the same place, and some of the characters reappear in different stories. They are often poor, eking out a living from fishing. They seldom leave the little towns they grew up in-- unless they are a father-- and sometimes a mother-- who simply one day walks out, never to return. They are often driven to drink and sometimes fundamentalist religion and may be overwhelmed by what Rick Bragg would call the train wreck in their lives. Some suffer from "closed-down resignation." One mother says that "they all leave you in the end." Their fragile, damaged lives, however, are often tempered by love. One character ("Commission") who has not seen his run-away father in 27 years and has every reason to feel differently, when he sees him again is "sick with love. . . at the very sight of him." Almost to a person, these characters work with the hand they have been dealt, often with little complaining.

Fictional characters usually grab us in one of two ways, assuming of course that they are real life flesh and blood to begin with, as Winton's always are. They are either exotic and not like anyone we have ever known-- anyone Tolstoy wrote about, for example, or, like Winton's, they remind us of many people we either now know or have known. Even though these characters inhabit Australia, about as far from the Southern United States as one can go, I recognized many of them. They could have stepped out of the novels of many Southern writers. Harry Crews, for example, in his memoirs published several years ago, remarked that it was not unusual for people he knew as a child growing up in South Georgia to have a missing finger. My paternal grandfather as a young man lost a finger from a horse bite. Much is made in one of Winton's stories of a young woman's missing finger ("Abbreviation"). Another girl has a huge facial birthmark. Others are imperfect in other ways.

While all theses stories are exceptional, the best story by far-- and one of the best I have read in a very long time-- is "Small Mercies." This scalding story is so powerful and the characters so haunting that you will not be able to read another one right away. How Mr. Winton can pack so much sorrow, raw pain and passion into about 30 pages is beyond me, but he does it. The first line, "Peter Dyson came home one day to find his wife dead in the garage" sets the tone for this intense story; and the writer does not let up. Dyson, unlike many of these characters who cannot wait to get out of the restrictive towns they grew up in, takes his six-year-old son Ricky and goes back to the house where he was raised in an attempt to put the pieces of his shattered life back together. He runs into Marjorie and Don Keenan, whom he describes as "full-on people," and ultimately their daughter Faye with whom he had-- at least according to him-- a very unhealthy sexual relationship throughout high school. Faye is also recently back in town, just free from drugs but teetering on a relapse. She would like to see her daughter more (who now lives with the grandparents) and would like to become friends again with Peter and rekindle whatever they had going in the past. She is both sad and manipulative-- and as human as your Aunt Edith. It does not seem fair to the rest of us mortals that anyone could write a short story this fine. But as President Jimmy Carter said-- and these characters to a person would agree-- life is not fair.

For the strong-hearted, these stories are not to be missed.
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terence dunne
4.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the effort
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2022
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I say well worth the effort because in places I found it hard to follow. Being aware some of the chapters had been separately published as short stories made that understandable. As usual Tim Winton gets right into the heart of the characters , supported by beautifully descriptive prose.
I haven't read any of his stuff for a while but I am determined to search out more of his output . Really glad I persevered .
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