Minimum of Two: Stories

Winton, Tim

ISBN 10: 068911978X / ISBN 13: 9780689119781

Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1988

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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION AND PRINTING. Internationally acclaimed, immensely gifted, Miles Franklin Award (Australia's most prestigious literary prize)-winning author's fourth book. "Many of the stories that comprise 'Minimum of Two' are encounters with one family-Rachel, Jerra, and their baby, Sam-at pivotal moments in their lives. There is "Blood and Water," the story of Sam's momentous birth, and "Forest Winter," about hardships endured during a season of living off the land. There are also the more prosperous years of "Gravity," years that are nevertheless singed by memories of a parent's death, and "More," where we witness how obsession and a trivial infidelity can threaten a marriage. It is a testament to Tim Winton's virtuosity that 'Minimum of Two' can also contain stories as diverse as "No Memory Comes," about a young boy's efforts to bring back a simpler past, the time before his parents split up, and "Minimum of Two," the stark and violent title story, where a husband confronts his wife's convicted rapist. Finally, there is the hope and rejuvenation in nature that marks "Laps," the coda to Tim Winton's remarkable 'Shallows'." 14 short stories. 153 pages. Thin, light yellowing strips to DJ interior flaps. elsewise a fine copy in a mylar protective cover! LF.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Minimum of Two: Stories
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068911978X
• ISBN 13: 9780689119781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

A collection of short stories explores the themes of friendship, early marriage, and family relationships

Book Description

These stories are a wonderful introduction to his quirky fictional world gutsy, funny, lyrical but unpretentious Independent Tim Winton s second short-story collection explores the complexity of human relationships through the themes of futility and hope, revenge and redemption, birth and death that twist through each tale in turn, emerging, re-emerging, competing, conflicting. As characters, too, surface and reappear, their lives are slowly, painstakingly revealed. Through frozen moments and stolen glances, their stories and histories are told, their emotions exposed, their souls stripped bare. Threaded together by Tim Winton s haunting prose, the tales in Minimum of Two ultimately offer an optimistic view of the world in which we live. Winton . . . writes with a muscular looseness which is suited perfectly to the people and places he is describing The Times Tim Winton has cracked something essential about modern Australia: how to find meaning in the intimate and terrible parts of contemporary family life, set against a landscape which is inhumanly vast Evening Standard The vividness and clarity that Mr Winton responds to in nature are also beautifully embodied in his own writing The Economist