Word: harshness
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...most famous work, Cloudstreet, begins on the Abrolhos Islands; his latest novel, Dirt Music, is set in a fictional lobster-fishing town along this coast. Tuck your guidebook into the glove compartment and go traveling with Winton. He expertly steers the reader through a landscape of contradictions as harsh and tender as the people who populate...
...coast. Georgie Jutland, a seen-it-all nurse, is looking for healing. They meet. Things get prickly. After Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) and Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang), Winton is Australia's most revered writer. But he is younger and more averse to romanticizing his harsh native landscape. Dirt Music is like that landscape: you can't skip through it, but its unflinching beauty will...
...That may sound harsh, and I admit I’ve sworn at him under my breath many times, but it really instills a will to win, a hatred for losing,” Lenicheck says. “It makes playing games much easier...
...even came from those hardly predisposed to praising Kirby, including professors who left the department he chaired and those who rejected tenure offers during his term. Few could even think of others who might have harsh feelings toward Kirby...
Just days after the Princeton announcement, West appeared again on Smiley’s show with harsh words for his soon-to-be-former employer, and his comments reignited the media hoopla surrounding his clash with Summers...