Eyrie (novel)

Eyrie
Author Tim Winton
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher Penguin, Australia
Publication date
 2013
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 432
ISBN 978-0374151348
Preceded by Breath

Eyrie (2013) is a novel by Australian author Tim Winton.[1] It was shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award.[2]

Plot summary

Tom Keely is alone, living at the top of the Mirador apartments, a highrise in Fremantle, Western Australia. Once a high-powered, environmental activist he is now divorced and destitute. "Tim Winton's heart-stopping, exhilarating Eyrie asks how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the right thing."[1]

Reviews

Lyn McCredden in the Sydney Review of Books wrote about Wintons theme of families who "...can be sustaining, even redemptive. They work on intimate premises different to those of the political and social. They can be bulwarks against a hostile world and places of repetitive, formative violence and loss. ..can be units of resistance against personal dissolution, even in the face of utter loss and falls from grace, but they also carry the seeds of tragedy and hostility."[3]

Michael Williams in The Guardian considered it a "superb novel", a tale about people "trying to work out how to be good to one another" He writes that while some critics have written about the bleakness of Eyrie they could also write about "... the narrative is as propulsive as anything he has written before – or applaud the novel's caustic and frequently laugh-out-loud sense of humour.".[4]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. 1 2 "Eyrie by Tim Winton". Penguin. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Personal Awards for Works". Austlit. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "The Quality of Mercy" by Lyn McCredden, Sydney Review of Books 6 December 2013
  4. ↑ "Eyrie, by Tim Winton – book review" by Michael Williams, The Guardian, 1 November 2013
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