{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250215048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 4.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Tim Winton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648696512668,"sku":"9781250215048","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_47078d00-78e4-4982-9978-d2010350f7f9.jpg?v=1603870778","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-shepherds-hut-9781250215048","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}