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Published: 25th June 2014
Blueback: Australian Children's Classics
By (Author) Tim Winton
Penguin Random House Australia
Viking Australia
25th June 2014
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage social topics: Environment, sustainability and green issues
A823
Hardback
160
Width 135mm, Height 187mm, Spine 16mm
280g
The final volume in the iconic Penguin Australian Children's Classics series, Blueback is a deceptively simple allegory about a boy who matures through fortitude, and finds wisdom by living in harmony with all forms of life. A beautiful distillation of Winton's art and concerns.
Tim Winton has published 25 books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into 28 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). Tim Winton's most recent novel is Eyrie.