The New York Times Book Review: "These stories have an austerity as lofty as the weather on this wild coast, and as capable of surprises."

Entertainment Weekly: "Tim Winton tenderly extends his broken characters a delicate grace."

San Francisco Chronicle: "What John Steinbeck was to California's Central Valley, Tim Winton is to the coastel region of Western Australia... Winton's ability to arrange the written word appears effortless."

A Book Sense 76 Pick

Shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize

Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner of the Western Australian Premier's Prize and the Western Australian Prize for Fiction

Time: "Tim Winton lays literary claim to a continent and to the title of great Australian novelist ... it's Winton at his poetic best ... powerfully redemptive -- and transcendent." PW (starred review): "stunning...strikes with the force of a full-blown natural catastrophe."

Chicago Tribune: “Awe-inspiring…. Winton makes words into sounds into music into art. Against so persuasive a literary seduction, no resistance is possible.”

The Seattle Times: “An astonishing blend of pell-mell sensation: unreasoning love, grief, the need to escape, desire, fulfillment.”

Entertainment Weekly: “An intense read, raw and beautiful, studded with shards of rage.”

The New York Times Book Review: "A winning story not only for children but also for adults."

Booklist: "A memorable and redemptive fable of our maddening times."

Booker Prize Finalist

The New York Times Book Review: "Intelligent, artefully rendered, fresh in outlook... Mr. Winton's prose is irristible."

Michael Parker, The Washington Post Book World: "Winton has written a psychological thriller that satisfies on every imaginable level, an odyssey driven by character and language, landscape and memory, and -- most profoundly -- the dangers of complacency."

Colleen Lindsay, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle: "THE RIDERS is a masterpiece of magnificent imagery. Winton's prose is melodic and smooth; his characters are fully fleshed."

The Washington Post: "CLOUDSTREET gets you inside the very skin of postwar working-class Australians the way Joyce makes you feel like a turn-of-the-century Dubliner... people get up from where they have fallen, they try, they keep on. Above all, they laugh at themselves, sometimes bitterly, but much more often riotously."

Los Angeles Times Book Review: "Winton is a one-man band of genius."

Time Out: "Nothing short of magnificent... a wonderful read."

Graham Swift, author of LAST ORDERS and WATERLAND: "A writer of tremendous zest, warmth, and humor."

Publishers Weekly: "A wrenching story that proves that love like Ort's can prevail against hell itself."

Richmond Times-Dispatch: "A story that is as exuberant as it is original...through the wonderful voice of a young narrator, it becomes a touching and almost mythical tale of a child's faith and the emotional healing power of love."