Author(s): Tim Winton

Audio Books

Tim Winton's classic first novel, full of wonderful characterisations and rich and evocative language. From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Riders, Cloudstreet and The Turning (also available from Bolinda Audio). 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. An Open Swimmer is a remarkable first novel by award-winning author Tim Winton. "Amid brooding images of mutilation and guilt, awakening sexuality and displacement of ideals ...Winton draws together a delicate pattern of images and tensions and energy. His first novel, it is a work of energy and restraint." - The Good Reading Guide