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That Eye, the Sky by Winton, Tim is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is That Eye, the Sky about?

That Eye, The Sky is Tim Winton's luminous novel about a boy's vision of the world beyond, and about finding a way through cataclysm. "The best book about a boy I've read since Huckleberry Finn" (Sydney Morning Herald)."The great strength of the novel is in the way the grotesque contrasts and parallels in human life are spread out, examined and accepted." The Los Angeles TimesOrt knows the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch; he spends long hours listening at doors and peering through cracks. Things are terribly wrong. His father is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower child of the 1960s, is brave but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door. "From the author of Shallows, a Faulknerian saga about modern whaling, comes this spunky and symbol-laden short novel about redemption in the life of a dirt-poor family in Western Australia... What saves this Tobacco Road melodrama from the hopelessly squalid and pathetic is the plucky voice of young Ort, who narrates the whole in a Huck Finn tone, with a sensitive and unflaggingly irreverent energy supplied by his wordsmith author." - Kirkus

Who reads That Eye, the Sky?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Winton, Tim
Publisher
Penguin Group Australia
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781742537382
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction
Rating
3.51 / 5 (46 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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