Shallows
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the remote, wind-scoured whaling town of Angelus on the coast of Western Australia, a community tears itself apart over the ancient and brutal practice of whale hunting. Tim Winton's Shallows chronicles the collision of two worlds — the old-guard whalers whose identity is inseparable from the sea's harvest, and a new generation of conservationists whose passionate resistance threatens to unravel the very fabric of the town. At the heart of this conflict stands Queenie Coupar, a young woman caught between inherited tradition and a dawning moral conscience, whose struggle mirrors the wider convulsions of a society confronting its own cruelties. Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in 1984, Shallows announced Winton as one of Australia's most vital literary voices, a writer capable of rendering the vast, indifferent beauty of the Southern Ocean with breathtaking precision. His prose is muscular yet lyrical, steeped in the salt and grit of a coastal landscape that functions as both backdrop and moral force. The novel argues powerfully that the choices a community makes about the natural world are ultimately choices about its own soul — and the question of what Angelus will become lingers long after the final page is turned.
Author: Tim Winton
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the remote, wind-scoured whaling town of Angelus on the coast of Western Australia, a community tears itself apart over the ancient and brutal practice of whale hunting. Tim Winton's Shallows chronicles the collision of two worlds — the old-guard whalers whose identity is inseparable from the sea's harvest, and a new generation of conservationists whose passionate resistance threatens to unravel the very fabric of the town. At the heart of this conflict stands Queenie Coupar, a young woman caught between inherited tradition and a dawning moral conscience, whose struggle mirrors the wider convulsions of a society confronting its own cruelties. Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in 1984, Shallows announced Winton as one of Australia's most vital literary voices, a writer capable of rendering the vast, indifferent beauty of the Southern Ocean with breathtaking precision. His prose is muscular yet lyrical, steeped in the salt and grit of a coastal landscape that functions as both backdrop and moral force. The novel argues powerfully that the choices a community makes about the natural world are ultimately choices about its own soul — and the question of what Angelus will become lingers long after the final page is turned.