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Title: In the Winter Dark
Author: Tim Winton
Narrator: James Wright
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-30-08
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow in his orchard. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbses house, a small dog is torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same again.
©2003 Tim Winton; (P)2004 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Editorial Reviews:
Tim Wintons In the Winter Dark is a tightly-wound psychological thriller, characterized by sparse description and rapidly escalating tension. This intense audiobook introduces listeners to four characters, living on adjacent plots of land in the Australian outback, who are brought together in terror by a series of violent incidents which cause each neighbor in turn to begin manifesting his or her darkest selves and secrets.
James Wrights gruff, no-nonsense voice is the perfect vessel for this taut audiobook, and even as fear builds in the text, Wrights performance remains agonizingly steady, a strong, grounded counterpoint to the dizzying spiral of violent emotions building within this gripping work.
Critic Reviews:
"This is Winton at his most disciplined, most distilled - and its an unforgettable story, told with the simplicity that only a consummate artist can achieve." (Sun Herald)
Members Reviews:
A departure from the ordinalry, A+++
Can't go wrong with Tim Winton.
Very Impressive
Based on the other reviews, and some folk I've spoken to, Tim Winton is the kind of writer who polarises opinion. And it seems his voice is one which has immediate impact in this regard. People very quickly seem to either love or hate his work.
I, for one, fall heavily into the "love" side. Winton's greatest strength appears to be his ability to get the reader to tell themselves the story. His style is rich in mood and sparse in explanation, giving readers cause to do some of the work themselves. I'm sure that approach is not for everyone, but it works for me. I feel like an investor - a conspirator even - every time I read a Winton story.
In The Winter Dark is most assuredly a bleak tale. The characters are irascible and dark, seemingly cauterised from every other part of existence. At times it feels as if they sense the reader observing them, trying to get to know them, and they step back and close off. It's the kind of trait which is very strong in (but not exclusive to) country Australia, where the story is set.
This is by no means a horror story, but I feel horror readers would perhaps appreciate this more than casual readers. Though there's enough within the story to suggest a tangible danger to life and limb, it's the darkness of the characters' memories and experiences which quicken the pulse.
Definitely Dark..
Dark is right. The characters and the landscape are full of dreams that mock their inability to know what they want from life, let alone have the courage to strive for it. The girl is in the same mould - although more "feral" than the older inghabitants of the valley (portraying the reality that each generation is gettting less "fit" for any life).
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Title: In the Winter Dark
Author: Tim Winton
Narrator: James Wright
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-30-08
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow in his orchard. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbses house, a small dog is torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same again.
©2003 Tim Winton; (P)2004 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Editorial Reviews:
Tim Wintons In the Winter Dark is a tightly-wound psychological thriller, characterized by sparse description and rapidly escalating tension. This intense audiobook introduces listeners to four characters, living on adjacent plots of land in the Australian outback, who are brought together in terror by a series of violent incidents which cause each neighbor in turn to begin manifesting his or her darkest selves and secrets.
James Wrights gruff, no-nonsense voice is the perfect vessel for this taut audiobook, and even as fear builds in the text, Wrights performance remains agonizingly steady, a strong, grounded counterpoint to the dizzying spiral of violent emotions building within this gripping work.
Critic Reviews:
"This is Winton at his most disciplined, most distilled - and its an unforgettable story, told with the simplicity that only a consummate artist can achieve." (Sun Herald)
Members Reviews:
A departure from the ordinalry, A+++
Can't go wrong with Tim Winton.
Very Impressive
Based on the other reviews, and some folk I've spoken to, Tim Winton is the kind of writer who polarises opinion. And it seems his voice is one which has immediate impact in this regard. People very quickly seem to either love or hate his work.
I, for one, fall heavily into the "love" side. Winton's greatest strength appears to be his ability to get the reader to tell themselves the story. His style is rich in mood and sparse in explanation, giving readers cause to do some of the work themselves. I'm sure that approach is not for everyone, but it works for me. I feel like an investor - a conspirator even - every time I read a Winton story.
In The Winter Dark is most assuredly a bleak tale. The characters are irascible and dark, seemingly cauterised from every other part of existence. At times it feels as if they sense the reader observing them, trying to get to know them, and they step back and close off. It's the kind of trait which is very strong in (but not exclusive to) country Australia, where the story is set.
This is by no means a horror story, but I feel horror readers would perhaps appreciate this more than casual readers. Though there's enough within the story to suggest a tangible danger to life and limb, it's the darkness of the characters' memories and experiences which quicken the pulse.
Definitely Dark..
Dark is right. The characters and the landscape are full of dreams that mock their inability to know what they want from life, let alone have the courage to strive for it. The girl is in the same mould - although more "feral" than the older inghabitants of the valley (portraying the reality that each generation is gettting less "fit" for any life).