The Boy Behind the Curtain

The Boy Behind the Curtain Notes from an Australian Life

Main Market Ed.

Hardback (04 May 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man.

In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how moments from his childhood and life growing up have shaped his views on class, faith, fundamentalism, the environment, and - most pressingly - how all his experiences have made him a writer.

From unexpected links between car crashes and faith, surfing and writing, to the story of his upbringing in the changing Australian landscape, The Boy Behind the Curtain is an impassioned, funny, joyous, astonishing collection of memories, and Winton's most personal book to date.

Book information

ISBN: 9781509816941
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: Main Market Ed.
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 299
Weight: 452g
Height: 144mm
Width: 223mm
Spine width: 34mm

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.