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  • Published: 14 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781742537368
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 180

An Open Swimmer




An Open Swimmer, winner of the Australian Vogel Award, is the remarkable first novel by Tim Winton, one of Australia's most loved and respected writers.

An Open Swimmer, winner of the Australian Vogel Award, is the remarkable first novel by Tim Winton, one of Australia's most loved and respected writers.

Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want to know when he will finish university, when he will find a girl. But they don't understand about Sean's mother, Jewel, or the bush or the fish with the pearl.

They think he needs a job, but what Jerra is searching for is more elusive. Only the sea, and perhaps the old man who lives in a shack beside it, can help.

  • Published: 14 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781742537368
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 180

About the author

Tim Winton

Tim Winton was born in Perth, Australia in 1960. A four-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, Winton is a bestselling author whose work has been adapted for the stage and screen and is widely translated.

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Praise for An Open Swimmer

Amid brooding images of mutilation and guilt, awakening sexuality and displacement of ideals . . . Winton draws together a delicate pattern of images and tensions and mystery. His first novel, it is a work of energy and restraint.

Helen Daniel, Good Reading
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