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In Eyrie, award‑winning Australian novelist Tim Winton tracks Tom Keely’s decline after a career as an environmental advocate falls apart. Broke, besieged by scandal, Keely watches his life unravel from the perspective of his high‑rise apartment.
A woman from Keely’s past and her preternatural child arrive, perched on the brink of disaster. Amid con artists, drug dealers, violence and extortion, Keely must decide whether to keep his struggle for personal redemption or become the savior of others in a nightmarish, morally uncertain landscape.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Tim Winton
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