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unflinching prose. Robust and raw with softer emotions usually repressed or unacknowledged, The Turning and Once You Break a Knuckle mostly (in Wilson’s case exclusively) tell their stories from a male perspective. It generally isn’t a pretty one. Damaged or broken relationships, faded dreams, excessive drinking, anger, hurt and disillusionment populate the collections. But it’s not completely bleak.
Camaraderie, kinship, shared moments, exploration, and exultation in the small beauties and miniscule victories that make us all human are captured by both writers in stories that sing. Each one is a unique perspective, a different take and slant on lives lived – conjoined, separated, remembered - that collectively comprise an encompassing whole. Throughout each collection
the reader gets a strong sense of place, of character and of the (relatively) desolate surroundings that centre the stories, binding them together. The beaches, sun, salt flats and ever-present ocean in Winton’s world are worlds away from the jagged mountain ranges, endless forests and crystal lakes that Wilson writes of. It is their descriptiveness of each – and the people that live there, full of regrets, frailties, fears and hopes, kept by some indefinable reason but wanting more, or out – that make both these award-winning storywriters such a pleasure to read. Both collections are superb;
I’m envious of the huge talent displayed here. Pick these two up and enjoy disparate locales filled with real, everyday folks living life - for better or worse.
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