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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Tim Winton |
| Narrator: |
Stanley McGeagh |
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1995 The Man Booker Prize |
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Professional Reviews
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Keneally, Thomas: "Tim Winton, the most brilliant of younger Australian writers, here delivers in his normal translucent prose the most intricate, vivid, and rewarding tale he has ever written. From Yeatsian Ireland to modern Greece and back to Australia, he encompasses and transcends all the known world." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner (June 01, 1996)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.9 lbs.
ISBN: 9780684822778 |
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First Line
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With the North wind hard at his back, Scully stood in the doorway and sniffed. |
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In his 13th novel, Tim Winton depicts the panoramic tragedy of Scully, a ruddy, working-class fellow in Ireland whose wife, Jennifer, disappears suddenly and mysteriously after he has a ghostly vision of 20 horsemen one winter night. Scully's seven-year-old daughter, Billy, may have witnessed Jennifer's disappearance, but has been rendered mute by the ordeal. Clues lead Scully and his daughter on a quest that covers Greece, Italy, Paris, and Amsterdam, as Scully slowly accepts his failure along with the idea that some things will never be known. |
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