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AbstractHistoryArchive Description
Tim Winton's characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves. (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
Notes
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Dedication: These belong to Jesse and Denise: my blood, my water.
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One and one make one/and one/and one and one make one . . . - Playground chant
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Fitzroy,
Fitzroy - Collingwood area,
Melbourne - North,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:McPhee Gribble
, 1987 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Forest Winter, single work short story (p. 1-9)
- No Memory Comes, single work short story (p. 11-21)
- Gravity, single work short story (p. 23-32)
- Swimming to Salvation The Water Was Dark and It Went Forever Down, single work short story (p. 33-39)
- Nilsam's Friend, single work short story (p. 41-46)
- Minimum of Two, single work short story (p. 47-63)
- Distant Lands, single work short story (p. 65-71)
- Laps, single work short story (p. 73-87)
- Bay of Angels, single work short story (p. 89-93)
- The Strong One, single work short story (p. 95-104)
- Holding (for Derek), single work short story (p. 105-116)
- More, single work short story (p. 117-131)
- Death Belongs to the Dead, His Father Told Him, and Sadness to the Sad, single work short story (p. 133-138)
- Blood and Water, single work short story (p. 139-153)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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'More Blokes, More Bloody Water!' : Tim Winton's Breath
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 13-17) 'In Tim Winton's Short Story, "Blood and Water," from the celebrated collection Minimum of Two (1987), the narrator experiences the fear and joy of birth, associating birth with the sacred and the ordeal baby Sam Nilsam has to undergo in order to heave his first breath and connect with the outside world through a flow of excrement, blood, water and suffering. Breath, Winton's most recently published novel and winner of the Miles Franklin Award, suggests some of these ideas in the depiction of a boy's discovery and experience of the world of surf and surfers on the Western Australian coast. The novel encapsulates some of Winton's major concerns: adolescence and manhood, place and the environment, life in Western Australia, identity, culture and politics. It raises questions about eco-philosophical nature, issues of identity and place, all the more as it was published in the same year as newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations, a highly symbolic speech which marked the nation's desire to move forward, beyond colonization, urging Australians to build a new history resulting from both an ending (the recognition of past injustices) and a beginning (the desire to unite and embrace the multicultural ideal).' (Author's introduction)
- y Mind the Country : Tim Winton's Fiction Crawley : University of Western Australia , 2006 Z1286107 2006 single work criticism
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y
Tim Winton's Minimum of Two
Cheltenham
:
2004
6896493
2004
single work
criticism
'Insight Text Guide – Minimum of Two is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Tim Winton's short stories contains detailed character and chapter analysis, and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.' (Publisher's blurb)
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That Eye, the Past: History and Tim Winton's Fiction
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Tim Winton 1993; (p. 73-86) -
Childhood in Tim Winton's Fiction
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Tim Winton 1993; (p. 59-71)
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[Review] Minimum of Two
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , June vol. 2 no. 6 1987; (p. 14)
— Review of Minimum of Two 1987 selected work short story -
Improving on Ernest
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , April no. 37 1987; (p. 22)
— Review of Minimum of Two 1987 selected work short story -
Penguins New and Revisited
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , June vol. 7 no. 2 1988; (p. 57-58)
— Review of The Well Dressed Explorer 1962 single work novel ; Landscape with Landscape 1985 selected work short story ; That Eye, the Sky 1986 single work novel ; Minimum of Two 1987 selected work short story ; Testostero 1987 single work novel ; The Invaluable Mystery 1987 single work novel ; Holden's Performance 1987 single work novel -
Surf and Paradise
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Phoenix Review , Summer 1987/8 no. 2 1987; (p. 110-112)
— Review of Julia Paradise 1986 single work novel ; Minimum of Two 1987 selected work short story -
Ebb and Flow of Life and Death
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 March 1987; (p. 3)
— Review of Minimum of Two 1987 selected work short story - y Mind the Country : Tim Winton's Fiction Crawley : University of Western Australia , 2006 Z1286107 2006 single work criticism
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'More Blokes, More Bloody Water!' : Tim Winton's Breath
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 13-17) 'In Tim Winton's Short Story, "Blood and Water," from the celebrated collection Minimum of Two (1987), the narrator experiences the fear and joy of birth, associating birth with the sacred and the ordeal baby Sam Nilsam has to undergo in order to heave his first breath and connect with the outside world through a flow of excrement, blood, water and suffering. Breath, Winton's most recently published novel and winner of the Miles Franklin Award, suggests some of these ideas in the depiction of a boy's discovery and experience of the world of surf and surfers on the Western Australian coast. The novel encapsulates some of Winton's major concerns: adolescence and manhood, place and the environment, life in Western Australia, identity, culture and politics. It raises questions about eco-philosophical nature, issues of identity and place, all the more as it was published in the same year as newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations, a highly symbolic speech which marked the nation's desire to move forward, beyond colonization, urging Australians to build a new history resulting from both an ending (the recognition of past injustices) and a beginning (the desire to unite and embrace the multicultural ideal).' (Author's introduction)
- The Young Man and the Sea Colin Mackay (interviewer), 1987 single work interview
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Young Winton For Real
Martin Flanagan
(interviewer),
1987
single work
biography
interview
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 21 March 1987; (p. 13) -
On the Verge : Place in the Early Fiction of Tim Winton
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Tim Winton 1993; (p. 15-28)
Awards
- 1988 winner Western Australia Week Literary Award — Prose Fiction
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