Eyrie by Tim Winton

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has stamped inside. Author has signed book. Dust jacket has minor creasing to top edge.

Tom Keely's reputation is in ruins. Divorced and unemployed, he's lost faith in everything precious to him.

Holed up in a grim highrise, cultivating his newfound isolation, Keely looks down at a society from which he's retired hurt and angry. He's done fighting the good fight, and well past caring. But even in his seedy flat, ducking the neighbours, he's not safe from entanglement. All it takes is an awkward encounter in the lobby. A woman from his past, a boy the likes of which he's never met before. Two strangers leading a life beyond his experience and into whose orbit he falls despite himself.

What follows is a heart-stopping, groundbreaking novel for our times – funny, confronting, exhilarating and haunting. Inhabited by unforgettable characters, Eyrie asks how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the right thing. (publisher blurb)