{"product_id":"the-shepherds-hut-paperback","title":"The Shepherd's Hut - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370232414431,"sku":"9781250215048","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/e9NJ2sYoK9781250215048.webp?v=1789153690","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-shepherds-hut-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}