An Open Swimmer
- ISBN-10
- 1742537367
- ISBN-13
- 9781742537368
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-09-14
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Australia
- Author
- Tim Winton
Description
An Open Swimmer, winner of the Australian Vogel Award, is the remarkable first novel by Tim Winton, one of Australia's most loved and respected writers. 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.
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