Endurance links these small masterpieces. Winton's characters are ordinary people staring down the big challenges, the chafing frustrations, the random acts that lob across their path. They battle to make sense of things, to maintain loyalty against the odds. Their relationships strain under pressure, leaving them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves.

Author Biography

Tim Winton has published 20 books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into 25 languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music).