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is a beautiful object, with clear space around many of its chapters, as if you might want to pause, or ease them apart to hand on to your friends." He goes on that the essays are "fiercely personal", and include the descriptions and created images for which he is known. You gain a sense of how Winton
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In his novels the lives of his characters are overtaken by emotions and events over which they have no control. The stories Tim Winton has included in the collection also show that his live has been molded by accidents, unexpected events and chaos. The book is funny, irreverent, honest, and full of
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It also exposed him to story. Long before he recognised the Bible as "a storehouse of experience and longing", Winton recalls a childhood in which, "by a process I don't understand even now, the occult power of metaphor revealed itself". He grew "increasingly enthralled" by Bible imagery: Christ as
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