{"product_id":"the-shepherds-hut-9781250215048","title":"The Shepherd's Hut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Tim Winton, Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist and the author of \u003ci\u003eCloudstreet\u003c\/i\u003e, comes \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Hut\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of a young man on a thrilling journey of self-discovery in one of the harshest, near-uninhabitable climates on Earth. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Literary Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among writers in English. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and new--always revealing the raw, instinctual drives that lure us together and rend us apart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Hut\u003c\/i\u003e, Winton crafts the story of Jaxie Clackton, a brutalized rural youth who flees from the scene of his father's violent death and strikes out for the vast wilds of Western Australia. All he carries with him is a rifle and a waterjug. All he wants is peace and freedom. But surviving in the harsh saltlands alone is a savage business. And once he discovers he's not alone out there, all Jaxie's plans go awry. He meets a fellow exile, the ruined priest Fintan MacGillis, a man he's never certain he can trust, but on whom his life will soon depend. \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Hut\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling tale of unlikely friendship and yearning, at once brutal and lyrical, from one of our finest storytellers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe preeminent Australian novelist of his generation, \u003cb\u003eTim Winton\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eCloudstreet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Riders\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDirt Music\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other books. He has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award four times (for \u003ci\u003eShallows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCloudstreet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDirt Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBreath\u003c\/i\u003e) and has twice been short-listed for the Booker Prize (for \u003ci\u003eThe Riders \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDirt Music\u003c\/i\u003e). He lives in Western Australia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618015514898,"sku":"9781250215048","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cb07ac74-88d8-451f-b2f3-8b8ed6380393.jpg?v=1732526919","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-shepherds-hut-9781250215048","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}