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From Tim Winton, Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist and the author of Cloudstreet, comes “The Shepherd's Hut”, the story of a young man on a thrilling journey of self-discovery in one of the harshest, near-uninhabitable climates on Earth.
In “The Shepherd's Hut”, 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. “The Shepherd's Hut” is a thrilling tale of unlikely friendship and yearning, at once brutal and lyrical, from one of our finest storytellers.
In “The Shepherd's Hut”, 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. “The Shepherd's Hut” is a thrilling tale of unlikely friendship and yearning, at once brutal and lyrical, from one of our finest storytellers.