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The Turning
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower, Caroline Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
Here are turnings of all kinds - changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours - where people struggle against the terrible weight of the past and challenge the lives they've made for themselves. Beautifully crafted, and as tender as they are confronting, these elegiac stories examine the darkness and frailty of ordinary people and celebrate the moments when the light shines through.
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- Joseph Di Stefano
- 06-12-2015
A real feast from Winton
There is something here which Winton has not been able to capture in his later books. That sense of loss, longing, of regret that somehow life has gone its own path when you thought you owned it all.
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- Amanda
- 01-09-2015
Enjoyable...great human characters.
Wonderfully narrated..saw the movie first, reading the book made me appreciate it so much more.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-07-2020
Brilliant stories, dreadful audio editing
These wonderful stories are ruined in the telling buy some really thoughtless audio editing. The chapter divisions mean nothing — new stories usually start two seconds after old ones have finished, mid ‘chapter’, leaving no time to adjust. Sometimes there is a musical interlude, usually not. It would’ve been so easy to get this right. One chapter, one story. Not rocket science.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-08-2018
boring as bats**t
impossible to get through, performers were brilliant considering their nausea-inducing material, well done to them for keeping me listening for the first 4 hours. BRAVO
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- Shane
- 04-08-2018
confused
it may of just been me. but I've listened to it 3 times and I'm not to sure what its about or who is who or what Is going on.
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- Veronica Germann
- 05-06-2018
Language put me off
Could not finish it! Blasphemy is not a necessary addition to the story. Swearing also!
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- Karen Campbell
- 02-03-2012
It just got better and better
This book is less a collection of short stories and more a series of glimpses into the events that changed the nature of a small seaside town during the 1970s. The glimpses are presented through the eyes of different characters, all at varying points of time and each one gradually adds to the picture. Just like a jigsaw. Initially, just like a jigsaw, the pieces seem only vaguely connected and some don't seem to fit at all. Then at the half way point it all starts coming together. This gradual revelation of major plot developments from different points of view is very gripping and Tim Wintons wonderful frank and beautiful descriptive style keep the book flowing. My only gripe is that there is one story theme that really does seem to be a jigsaw piece from another box and I really want to know what happened.
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- dutchkids
- 30-08-2020
Audible should have mentioned that...
The words or description “a collection of vaguely interlinked short stories “ without a convergence point, which is what this beautifully written, highly evocative and scenic book is, would have been a great help before buying it, the author takes you on a 10 hour journey to nowhere in particular ... unless I completely missed the point, I’m a little peeved by pointlessness in any quite enjoyable book.
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- Karen
- 22-10-2009
The Turning
True Tim Winton stuff, real ozzie and down right honest, great for travelling with.
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- Del.
- 05-02-2019
#TheTurning
as always with a pen in his hand, the iconic writer creates a taste of Australian life and brings his characters to the front.
utterly addictive.
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