The Shepherd's Hut (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
In the scorched and unforgiving Australian outback, a desperate teenage boy runs for his life — and The Shepherd's Hut is the blistering, visceral account of his flight. Jaxie Clackton, brutalised by a violent father and shattered by sudden loss, flees into the vast, merciless saltlands of Western Australia with little more than rage and survival instinct to sustain him. There, in the shimmering emptiness, he encounters Fintan MacGillis, an exiled Irish priest with dark secrets of his own, and the two outcasts forge an unexpected, uneasy bond that will test the limits of trust, redemption, and human endurance. Tim Winton, one of Australia's most celebrated and internationally acclaimed novelists, writes with a raw, lyrical intensity that transforms landscape into a living force and colloquial voice into high literary art. The Shepherd's Hut is a taut, urgent novel that strips its characters down to their moral cores, asking whether grace can be found by those who have never been shown it. Brutal in its honesty yet shot through with hard-won tenderness, this is a work that haunts long after the final page — a testament to the redemptive power of an unlikely human connection forged at the edge of the known world.
Author: Tim Winton
Format: Hardback
Published: 2018, Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
In the scorched and unforgiving Australian outback, a desperate teenage boy runs for his life — and The Shepherd's Hut is the blistering, visceral account of his flight. Jaxie Clackton, brutalised by a violent father and shattered by sudden loss, flees into the vast, merciless saltlands of Western Australia with little more than rage and survival instinct to sustain him. There, in the shimmering emptiness, he encounters Fintan MacGillis, an exiled Irish priest with dark secrets of his own, and the two outcasts forge an unexpected, uneasy bond that will test the limits of trust, redemption, and human endurance. Tim Winton, one of Australia's most celebrated and internationally acclaimed novelists, writes with a raw, lyrical intensity that transforms landscape into a living force and colloquial voice into high literary art. The Shepherd's Hut is a taut, urgent novel that strips its characters down to their moral cores, asking whether grace can be found by those who have never been shown it. Brutal in its honesty yet shot through with hard-won tenderness, this is a work that haunts long after the final page — a testament to the redemptive power of an unlikely human connection forged at the edge of the known world.