{"product_id":"shepherds-hut","title":"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.\r","brand":"Tim Winton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44444777775340,"sku":"9781250215048","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Library Binding - Large Print","offer_id":44444777906412,"sku":"9781432859176","price":50.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781250215048.jpg?v=1719965740","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/shepherds-hut","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}