Dirt Music

by Winton (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $13.83

  Winner of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Christina Stead Award, WA Premier s Book of the Year, Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award, Goodreading Award-Readers Choice Book of the Year Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, Fox grew melons and counted stars and loved playing his guitar. Now, his life has become a project of forgetting. Not until he meets Georgie Jutland, the wife of White Point s most prosperous fisherman, does Fox begin to dream again and hear the dirt music anything you can play on a verandah or porch, he tells Georgie, without electricity. Like the beat of a barren heart, nature is never silent. Ambitious and perfectly calibrated, Dirt Music resonates with suspense, emotion, and timeless truths.