Synopsis
Winner of the Australian/Vogel Award for Best First Novel, Tim Winton's An Open Swimmer is a meditation on past and present, a story of madness and murder, and of the punishing yet redemptive qualities of both fire and water.
A fishing trip marks the end of Jerra and Sean’s friendship, although once, when they were younger and more innocent, it...
Details
09 May 2011208 pages
9780330526715Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Winton’s writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics.Sunday Telegraph
His elegiac novels are uplifting and cathartic dissections of fractured men and women.Independent
Winton has a fine ear for both intimate and monumental scales of drama.Evening Standard
