In these spare, piercing stories, people struggle with change and disintegration. Their lives fragment, their hearts break, the world deceives. Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction, Scission shows him marking out the territory he came to stamp as his own: the gritty courage demanded by the everyday, the epiphanies to be found in the commonplace. Winton takes the mundane and renders it exceptional.

Author Biography

Tim Winton has published 20 books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into 25 languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music).