The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and Sacred

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Perhaps more than any other Australian writer, Tim Winton challenges neat distinctions between the "literary" and the "popular". His award-winning books are lauded by critics and widely studied in schools and universities. He is also one of the country's most enduringly popular writers: Cloudstreet was voted "Australia's favourite book" in an ABC poll and his books appear regularly on bestseller lists. In this study of Winton's work and career, Lyn McCredden considers how he has bridged the literarypopular divide. She explores his treatment of class, gender, landscape and belonging, and how his engagement with these themes has deepened and changed over time.

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The Fiction of Tim Winton is an intelligent and exhaustively researched contribution to studies of Wintons writing. This book is also an example of sophisticated and immensely readable literary analysis.

-- Jay Daniel Thompson * The Australian *

It is hard to think of someone more capable of sympathetically explicating his literary and intellectual project. McCreddens The Fiction of Tim Winton is a sensitive, engaged, learned and very careful, though still accessible, argument for the value of this project.

-- Nathan Hollier * Australian Literary Studies *

'The Fiction of Tim Winton offers readers a broad and insightful view of the writing, career and cultural context of Tim Winton. Even for those familiar with the Australian context, there is much added value to be found here. It is refreshing to read such in-depth analysis of a single author.'

-- Tobias McCorkell * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *

Author Bio

Lyn McCredden is a professor of Australian literature and literary studies at Deakin University, Melbourne.