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Title:
The Turning (MP3)
Written by:
Tim Winton 
Read by:
Caroline LeeHumphrey Bower 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
Duration:
10 hours 45 minutes 
MP3 size:
466 MB 
Published:
April 01 2009 
Available Date:
April 01 2009 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781742018188 
Genres:
Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction; Short Stories & Anthologies 
Publisher:
Bolinda audio 
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International bestseller
Bestselling author
Award winning author

Shortlisted Audie Awards / Short Stories/Collections 2007
Winner NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2005
Winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards / Best Fiction Book 2005
Commended The Commonwealth Writer's Prize / Best Book (South East Asia and South Pacific Region) 2005
Joint Winner Colin Roderick Award 2004
Shortlisted Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2005

Each of the overlapping stories in Tim Winton's The Turning centres on a transformation; together they form the bestselling Australian collection of the last three decades.

Each of these overlapping stories centres on a transformation; together they form the bestselling Australian collection of the last three decades. Tim Winton’s characters are people we’re familiar with – their struggles and small triumphs are our own. Here they change in ways that are sometimes vast, sometimes indistinct, but every story illuminates things we take for granted. Even as some of these lives turn from expansive hope to defeated middle-age, there’s a sense of greater possibility, fuelled by the great turning of time itself.

'To read [Winton] is to be reminded not just of the possibilities of fiction but of the human heart.'
The Times

'[A] remarkable collection of interlinked short stories ... a superbly balanced whole.'
The Guardian

'Plot and prose combine to create what might just come close to being the perfect Australian novel.'
The Herald Sun

'As a collection of short stories [The Turning] is magnificent, but it also transcends its form and makes a breathtakingly beautiful and challenging novel.'
Australian Bookseller & Publisher

"Listening to The Turning in Sydney traffic was like diving into the refreshing West Australian oceans that Winton describes with such passion. It wasn't hard to imagine the hum of passing traffic to be the wind or the ocean in a storm. The Turning translates easily to audiobook, albeit across a massive 10 discs. At that length, it's the perfect holiday book to be uploaded to an iPod and listened to at your leisure, or better yet, for the corrugated drive northward from Perth, which all West Australians do at one time or other, through the very country the book encapsulates. Winton's characters are brought to life with an accent that combines gruffness and comfort. The narrators – Humphrey Bower and Caroline Lee – alternate with the stories, which helps keep the momentum. The broad and gentle Australian accents of the story-tellers echo the dry, pastoral Australian feel of the stories themselves, highlighting the measured cadence of Winton's sentences. The end result is that each story, no matter how disquieting, becomes intimate and strangely beautiful, laden with dust and sea salt."
Limelight Magazine