That Eye, the Sky

That Eye, The Sky is Tim Winton's luminous novel about a boy's vision of the world beyond, and about finding a way through cataclysm. "The best book about a boy I've read since Huckleberry Finn" (Sydney Morning Herald)."The great strength of the novel is in the way the grotesque contrasts and parallels in human life are spread out, examined and accepted." The Los Angeles TimesOrt knows the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch; he spends long hours listening at doors and peering through cracks. Things are terribly wrong. His father is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower child of the 1960s, is brave but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door. "From the author of Shallows, a Faulknerian saga about modern whaling, comes this spunky and symbol-laden short novel about redemption in the life of a dirt-poor family in Western Australia... What saves this Tobacco Road melodrama from the hopelessly squalid and pathetic is the plucky voice of young Ort, who narrates the whole in a Huck Finn tone, with a sensitive and unflaggingly irreverent energy supplied by his wordsmith author." - Kirkus ReviewsThat Eye, The Sky is a novel about the miraculous power of love and the blurry distinctions between the natural and the supernatural. All this, and more, begins at the moment the ute driven by Ort Flack's father ploughs into a roadside tree, throwing the whole world out of kilter. That Eye, the Sky is Tim Winton's luminous novel about a boy's vision of the world beyond, and about finding a way through cataclysm. Ort knows the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch; he spends long hours listening at doors and peering through cracks. Things are terribly wrong. His father is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower-child of the 1960s, is brave but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door. That Eye, the Sky is a novel about the miraculous power of love, and the blurry distinctions between the natural and the supernatural. All this, and more, begins at the moment the ute driven by Ort Flack's father ploughs into a roadside tree, throwing the whole world out of kilter. 'The best book about a boy I've read since Huckleberry Finn .' Sydney Morning Herald 'A story of generosity, insight and originality.' Weekend Australian 'A wrenching story that proves that love like Ort's can prevail against hell itself.' Publisher's Weekly 'The best book about a boy I've read since Huckleberry Finn .' Sydney Morning Herald Ort knows the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch; he spends long hours listening at doors and peering through cracks. Things are terribly wrong. His father is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower-child of the 1960s, is brave but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door. That Eye, the Sky is a luminous novel about a boy's vision of the world beyond, about finding a way through cataclysm. Everything begins at the moment the ute driven by Ort Flack's father ploughs into a roadside tree, throwing the whole world out of kilter. 'A wrenching story that proves that love like Ort's can prevail against hell itself.' Publishers Weekly 'The use of natural imagery – of moon and cloud, sky and water and dying trees – to... Ort knows that the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch; he spent long hours listening at doors and peering through cracks. Things are terribly wrong. His father is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower child of the 1960's is brave, but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door