Readers who are, like the narrator, adolescent might well enjoy Tim Winton's surf-and-turf tale.

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The protagonists of writer Tim Winton's 2001 novel are a wealthy lobsterman, his wife and a lobster poacher with whom she has an affair.

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On the fiction front, there were shout-outs for Tim Winton's much-loved Cloudstreet, Murray Bail's Eucalyptus, and Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang.

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Lobstermen cast a big shadow in their little towns--so much so that Western Australian writer Tim Winton based his prizewinning 2001 novel, Dirt Music, on a rich, domineering lobsterman.

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Lobstermen cast a big shadow in their little towns-so much so that Western Australian writer Tim Winton based his prizewinning 2001 novel, Dirt Music, on a rich, domineering lobsterman.

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Likewise Tim Winton's and Robert Drewe's novels -often set along the southern coast of Western Australian - vividly evoke the primal sensuality of the surf and its ability to calm and inspire, but also destroy.

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But the fiction writer whom Temple most reminded me of is his fellow Aussie, Tim Winton, perhaps because they both have a powerful talent for evoking both the setting and soul of Australia.

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When it comes to fiction, Tim Winton's Cloudstreet is probably the must-read novel, although I thought Breath was brilliant at making sense of the joy and wonder of surfing to people who have never ridden a wave.

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