Wintering

Awards:   Long-listed for Australian Book Industry Award, Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2019 (Australia) Long-listed for Colin Roderick Award 2019 (Australia) Short-listed for Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance 2022 (Australia) Short-listed for Queensland Premier's Award for State Significance, Queensland Literary Awards 2019 (Australia) Short-listed for Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance 2022 (Australia) Short-listed for Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, Adult & Debut 2019 (Australia) Short-listed for The Courier-Mail's People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award, Queensland Literary Awards 2019 (Australia)
Author:   Kris Kneen
Publisher:   Text Publishing
ISBN:  

9781925603880


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   03 September 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Long-listed for Australian Book Industry Award, Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2019 (Australia)
  • Long-listed for Colin Roderick Award 2019 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance 2022 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Queensland Premier's Award for State Significance, Queensland Literary Awards 2019 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance 2022 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, Adult & Debut 2019 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for The Courier-Mail's People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award, Queensland Literary Awards 2019 (Australia)

Overview

‘Who is this please?’ ‘Jessica. Jessica Weir.’ ‘I’m sorry, miss, but this was the last number—’ ‘Matthew’s on his way home. From work. He’s late. He should be home soon.’ And only the ocean breathing into the silence as if her own chest were rising and falling without fail. As if his heart were still beating. As if nothing in the world had changed. ‘We’ve found a car, miss, but there’s no sign of a driver.’ When Jessica’s partner disappears into the dark Tasmanian forest, there is of course the mystery of what happened to him—the deserted car, the enigmatic final image recorded on his phone. There is the strange circle of local women, widows of disappeared men, with their edgy fellowship and unhinged theories. And the forest itself: looming hugely over this tiny settlement on the remote tip of the island. But for Jessica there is also the tight community in which she is still a stranger and Matthew was not. What secrets do they know about her own life, that she doesn’t. And why do they believe things that should not—cannot—be true. For her own sanity, Jessica needs to know two things. Who was Matthew? And who—or what—has he become?

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Author:   Kris Kneen
Publisher:   Text Publishing
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9781925603880


ISBN 10:   1925603881
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   03 September 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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`What Kneen manages to do, as does Atwood, or even Murakami, is make her narrative worlds, wherever they lead, seamless and seductive. Both playful and structurally sound, Wintering remains tense and taut throughout, with a strong sense of place, cool engagement and the ghostly traces of environmental and personal degradation.' * Saturday Paper * `Thought-provoking...satisfying and compelling.' * Herald Sun * `This book is a surprise, [with] drama and twists that leave you exhilarated...Kneen has jumped, unafraid, into many shades of rough territory.' * Courier Mail * `Highly unusual, very ambitious...but I think Krissy Kneen achieves it.' * Radio New Zealand on An Uncertain Grace * `Endlessly curious and inventive, provocative and inspiring.' * Sydney Morning Herald on An Uncertain Grace * `One of Australia's hidden literary gems. With each new book, I find myself hoping that readers will finally discover her quirky, sexy and incredibly beautiful writing.' * Books+Publishing * `Kneen's writing, by turns playful and elegant, is never less than stimulating, in the literal and figurative senses of the word.' * Stella Prize 2017 Judges' Report * `At once a supernatural thriller and a sharp meditation on the legacy abusive men leave behind.' * Readings *


`Thought-provoking...satisfying and compelling.' * Herald Sun * `This book is a surprise, [with] drama and twists that leave you exhilarated...Kneen has jumped, unafraid, into many shades of rough territory.' * Courier Mail * `Highly unusual, very ambitious...but I think Krissy Kneen achieves it.' * Radio New Zealand on An Uncertain Grace * `Endlessly curious and inventive, provocative and inspiring.' * Sydney Morning Herald on An Uncertain Grace * `One of Australia's hidden literary gems. With each new book, I find myself hoping that readers will finally discover her quirky, sexy and incredibly beautiful writing.' * Books+Publishing * `Kneen's writing, by turns playful and elegant, is never less than stimulating, in the literal and figurative senses of the word.' * Stella Prize 2017 Judges' Report * `At once a supernatural thriller and a sharp meditation on the legacy abusive men leave behind.' * Readings *


`Rich and beautiful prose...Wintering is a story of survival and strength, and that's what makes it so easy to read and to recommend.' * Lifted Brow * `A dream-like and challenging book...beautiful poetic writing [that] takes on the weighty themes of grief and domestic violence.' * Otago Daily Times * `[A] taut new novel...Wintering uses [a] closed community to examine some disturbing aspects of Australian culture: parochialism, machismo, an unwillingness to face up to the past...Kneen also finds room for strength and kindness in this sleek and gripping novel.' * Australian * `A compressed and fiercely located thriller...a magnetic and oddly compulsive read.' * Overland * `What Kneen manages to do, as does Atwood, or even Murakami, is make her narrative worlds, wherever they lead, seamless and seductive. Both playful and structurally sound, Wintering remains tense and taut throughout, with a strong sense of place, cool engagement and the ghostly traces of environmental and personal degradation.' * Saturday Paper * `Thought-provoking...satisfying and compelling.' * Herald Sun * `This book is a surprise, [with] drama and twists that leave you exhilarated...Kneen has jumped, unafraid, into many shades of rough territory.' * Courier Mail * `Highly unusual, very ambitious...but I think Krissy Kneen achieves it.' * Radio New Zealand on An Uncertain Grace * `Endlessly curious and inventive, provocative and inspiring.' * Sydney Morning Herald on An Uncertain Grace * `One of Australia's hidden literary gems. With each new book, I find myself hoping that readers will finally discover her quirky, sexy and incredibly beautiful writing.' * Books+Publishing * `Kneen's writing, by turns playful and elegant, is never less than stimulating, in the literal and figurative senses of the word.' * Stella Prize 2017 Judges' Report * `At once a supernatural thriller and a sharp meditation on the legacy abusive men leave behind.' * Readings *


`Highly unusual, very ambitious...but I think Krissy Kneen achieves it.' * Radio New Zealand * `One of Australia's hidden literary gems. With each new book, I find myself hoping that readers will finally discover her quirky, sexy and incredibly beautiful writing.' * Books+Publishing * `Endlessly curious and inventive, provocative and inspiring.' * Sydney Morning Herald * `Kneen's writing, by turns playful and elegant, is never less than stimulating, in the literal and figurative senses of the word.' * Stella Prize 2017 Judges' Report *


Author Information

Krissy Kneen is the award-winning author of memoir—Affection—and fiction: An Uncertain Grace, Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, as well as the Thomas Shapcott Award-winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. She has written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC Television.

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