{"product_id":"2026200018836-secondhand-shallows","title":"Shallows","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nWinner 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573400867035,"sku":"2026200018836-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2b8eed05-59f6-4f97-a642-51172c5dff6f.png?v=1791168248","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018836-secondhand-shallows","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}