Shallows
A Australia, Cultural, Fiction book. He is good - that Tim Winton fellow. I hadn't heard of this book...
Shallows is set in a small whaling town in Western Australia, where land-based whaling has been a tradition for over 150 years. When Queenie Cookson decides to join an antiwhaling protest group, she defies her husband, her ancestry, and her community. Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in Australia, this eloquent and moving novel speaks with immediacy and passion of the conflict between the values of a closeknit, traditional society and the evolving mores of the wider world."The world here, the rainy, closed, quiet, claustrophobic world of the southern beach town just a long stone's throw away from Antarctica, is perfectly evoked. . . . The elegance of language, the grandeur of the nature being described . . . all this is dazzling, dazzling. It makes the heart pound."--Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Animating all 150 years of the settlement's history, [this novel] carries the symbolic weight of its subject matter--of whales and water and meaning of life--as lightly as a wind off the sea. . . . Shallows deserves to find a permanent place...
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The conclusion of this novel left me with a sense of hopelessness. In fact, the novel felt like it has a pervading sense of gloom throughout. The many characters are intensely morose.Yes, it's a serious subject that deserves intense consideration, but without the usual Winton humour it has a feeling of drab flatness, no pathway to redemption,... He is good - that Tim Winton fellow. I hadn't heard of this book and neither had the friends I asked. Set in Angelus/Albany - whaling industry/protesters -3 different periods of history.He is a bit of a master. Quite a powerful book. Think I might have to read it again to take it all in. The whaling industry has long ceased in Albany... Im a big fan of Tim Winton but this book realy dident do a thing for me. Probebly the most boring book of his ive read. i finished it tho just out of loyalty i suppose but there certainly are MUCH better Winton books out there. I guess it was his second book he ever wrote so he had to of started from somewhere... The writing was fantastic...
