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Eyrie
Eyrie: A Novel | Tim Winton
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Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among English-language novelists. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and newalways revealing the raw, instinctual drives that lure us together and rend us apart. In Eyrie, Winton crafts the story of Tom Keely, a man struggling to accomplish good in an utterly fallen world. Once an ambitious, altruistic environmentalist, Keely now finds himself broke, embroiled in scandal, and struggling to piece together some semblance of a life. From the heights of his urban high-rise apartment, he surveys the wreckage of his life and the world he's tumbled out of love with. Just before he descends completely into pills and sorrow, a woman from his past and her preternatural child appear, perched on the edge of disaster, desperate for help. When you're fighting to keep your head above water, how can you save someone else from drowning? As Keely slips into a nightmarish world of con artists, drug dealers, petty violence, and extortion, Winton confronts the cost of benevolence and creates a landscape of uncertainty. Eyrie is a thrilling and vertigo-inducing morality tale, at once brutal and lyrical, from one of our finest storytellers.
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andrew61
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Review 2 today is a real life bk club selection + my 1st tim winton. Loved it, as we meet in the opening chapter a man living in a fremantle high rise who we know is in bad place, disgraced divorced drunk incontinent, who then meets a childhood friend with her grandson. The remaining absorbing story tells how his life changes with the interaction, and an ending which i think will make for an interesting discussion. Can't wait to rd more.

MrsMalaprop I am a massive Winton fan. I love seeing him around town at various events. I have a cool anecdote about this book that you can read if you scroll through the posts about Eyrie. 😊 5y
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GatheringBooks
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#31BookPics Day 15: I mentioned during the #BookClub discussion that inhabiting Keely‘s mind was like a gift – despite its being a tragic and painful one, as there was understated but very evident skill in speaking burning truths that throbbed at one‘s insides – and that takes an enormous amount of courage to pull off. It also reminded me to never take anything for granted and to love what I love with fullness & joy. https://wp.me/pDlzr-9IU

MrsMalaprop Shortly after I read this a friend came for a holiday in Perth (where Eyrie is set). I drove her to accommodation she'd booked in Fremantle. We pulled up outside a block of flats and went into the lift well. I got a strange feeling of deja vu. I mentioned to the people who owned the flat that this felt a lot like the flats in a book I'd recently read. They told me Tim Winton owns a flat on the 10th floor that he uses to write in! 😮😍👍. (edited) 6y
CarolynM @MrsMalaprop That's amazing! Great anecdote🙂 6y
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LapReader
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Forgot how great Tim is at describing masculinity. I read this one for Book Club. Wasn‘t keen to read it at 1st but so glad I did. Took a while to get into it though. Just like all of his books that I have read.

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rwmg
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MrsMalaprop
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My Winton collection. True story: A friend came for a holiday in Perth last summer. I drove her to accommodation she'd booked in Fremantle. We pulled up outside a block of flats and went into the lift well. I got a strange feeling of deja vu. I mentioned to the people who took us up in the lift that this felt a lot like the flats in a book I'd recently read. They told me Tim Winton owns a flat on the 10th floor that he uses to write in! 😮😁👍.

DeborahSmall I love Cloudstreet. Plan on reading Eyrie this year 💞 8y
Eva_B Looks a lot like my collection of Tim Winton books! 😊 8y
andrew61 Great story ☺ - im not sure I'd want to live in the block although i bet the views are amazing however im not good with heights. 5y
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DeborahSmall
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#bookmail (Eyrie) the rest are a decent charity shop haul 👍🏼📚❤️

britt_brooke Nice! 8y
DeborahSmall @britt_brooke I'm not sure about Jodi Picoult, I have read a few of her books but only enjoyed one. Although I like the look of her most recent book. But for Q9 I couldn't pass it by! 8y
LeahBergen 👍🏼👍🏼 8y
Dragon I enjoyed The Husband's Secret , nice haul 😀 8y
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Millmj
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