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Eyrie, June 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
June 2014
On Sale: June 10, 2014
433 pages ISBN: 0374151342 EAN: 9780374151348 Kindle: B00H6EJQTO Hardcover / e-Book
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"An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed
writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved
literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize
and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for
Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually
unrivaled among English-language novelists. His work is both
tough and tender, primordial and new--always revealing the
raw, instinctual drives that lure us together and rend us
apart. In Eyrie, Winton crafts the story of Tom Keely, a man
struggling to accomplish good in an utterly fallen world.
Once an ambitious, altruistic environmentalist, Keely now
finds himself broke, embroiled in scandal, and struggling to
piece together some semblance of a life. From the heights of
his urban high-rise apartment, he surveys the wreckage of
his life and the world he's tumbled out of love with. Just
before he descends completely into pills and sorrow, a woman
from his past and her preternatural child appear, perched on
the edge of disaster, desperate for help. When you're
fighting to keep your head above water, how can you save
someone else from drowning? As Keely slips into a
nightmarish world of con artists, drug dealers, petty
violence, and extortion, Winton confronts the cost of
benevolence and creates a landscape of uncertainty. Eyrie is
a thrilling and vertigo-inducing morality tale, at once
brutal and lyrical, from one of our finest storytellers"--
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