Minimum of two

Summary: "Tim Winton's second short-story collection explores the complexity of human relationships through the themes of futility and hope, revenge and redemption, birth and death that twist through each tale in turn, emerging, re-emerging, competing, conflicting. As characters, too, surface and reappear, their lives are slowly, painstakingly revealed. Through frozen moments and stolen glances, their stories – and histories – are told, their emotions exposed, their souls stripped bare. Threaded together by Tim Winton's haunting prose, the tales in Minimum of Two ultimately offer an optimistic view of the world in which we live."--Provided by the publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0330412620
ISBN: 9780330412629
Physical Description: print
xi, 128 p. ; 20 cm.
Publisher: London : Picador, 2003, c1987.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Reprint. Originally published: Australia : McPhee Gribble, 1987.
Formatted Contents Note:	Forest winter -- No memory comes -- Gravity -- Water was dark and it went forever down -- Nilsam's friend -- Minimum of two -- Distant lands -- Laps -- Bay of Angels -- Strong one -- Holding -- More -- Death belongs to the dead, his father told him, and sadness to the sad -- Blood and water.