Minimum of Two Tim Winton 1987

Dustjacket synopsis:
"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."

Quotes:
"Like Hemingway, Winton writes prose in which you can hear the thumping of the heart of the long-distance swimmer, or the rasping heaving breath of the asthmatic..." - Cathy Peake, Times on Sunday
"It's another beauty - a poignant collection of spare, understated tales about ordinary people battling to preserve the relationships they treasure in the face of many troubles..." - Tara Baker, Cleo
"Shows more clearly than anybody ever has how catastrophe, suffering and love can survive together in one little room" - Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times

Contents

Forest Winter
No Memory Comes
Gravity
The Water was Dark and It Went Forever Down
Nilsam's Friend
Minimum of Two
Distant Lands
Laps
Bay of Angels
The Strong One
Holding
More
Death Belongs to the Dead, His Father Told Him, and Sadness to the Sad
Blood and Water

From the Penguin paperback edition, 1996.

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