![]() ![]() As the title suggest, each story contains a moment of turning-a brief epiphany where the dirt and grit of the moment is transformed. The settings, situations, and themes overlap, but the stories are able to stand alone, as evidenced by the individual publication of seven of the stories in well known Australian literary journals. ![]() ![]() The Turning is a collection of seventeen short stories that follow the lives of the same characters at different critical moments in their lives. His work tends to traverse a bleak terrain, with poorly educated characters facing limited life choices, and yet there is almost always a kind of rough hewn beauty, between the landscape, the intensity of the emotions the characters experience, and the relationships they struggle with. Tim Winton has a gift for combining accessibility, literary grace, and a strong sense of the common character. Even at its lowest moments, there is always some element of beauty. Taken together, these stories create their own turning, a sense that life somehow, even at its bleakest, goes on. The Turning often makes for painful reading, as we are drawn deeply into the heart of these stunted, unhappy, and sometimes doomed lives, but Winton’s prose is transcendent. ![]()
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