Book description
‘These stories are a wonderful introduction to his quirky fictional
world - gutsy, funny, lyrical but unpretentious, with an unerring sense
of the transcendent possibilities in ordinary lives’
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
Tim Winton was born in Perth in 1960 and has written novels,
collections of stories, non-fiction and books for children. He has been
twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Riders
(1995) and Dirt Music
(2002).
