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Juice
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Narrated by:
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David Field
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By:
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Tim Winton
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'A masterful story for the ages . . . a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with. To read and weep.' TARA JUNE WINCH, GUARDIAN
'A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, JUICE will stab your conscience and break your heart.' EMMA DONOGHUE
'A searing but essential look at Earth after the human-induced apocalypse. Too real to be true. Too true to be real.' BOB BROWN
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place - middens of twisted iron, rusty wire, piles of sun-baked trash. They're exhausted, traumatised, desperate now. But as a refuge, this is the most promising place they've seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.
Problem is, they're not alone.
So begins a searing, propulsive journey through a life whose central challenge is not simply a matter of survival, but of how to maintain human decency as everyone around you falls ever further into barbarism.
'A barnstorming, coruscating work of fiction, a heavyweight literary novel that sits squarely in the growing canon of "climate fiction" and it feels to me to be an instant classic of that genre. I strongly recommend it.' EMILY H WILSON, NEW SCIENTIST (UK)
'Juice, Winton has said, means "human resilience and moral courage", and there is that in spades in this complex, riveting book already being hailed as a masterpiece.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
'This is page-turning stuff, gripping and awfully gratifying . . . Winton's ending is a masterstroke, the heart-in-your-mouth final chapter one of the best things I've read in a long time.' RACHEL SEIFFERT, GUARDIAN UK
'Exciting . . . ambitious . . . Juice breaks new ground to face the climate emergency.' THE CONVERSATION
'Every machine-tooled sentence is its own reward . . . the sheer length of the novel becomes its greatest pleasure. Winton drives Juice towards its conclusion with a narrative force that feels almost cyclonic.' GEORDIE WILLIAMSON, THE AUSTRALIAN
'Full of surprises and stunning originality.' SIMON SMART, ABC ONLINE
'A must-read masterpiece from one of Australia's most celebrated writers.' STEPHEN ROMEI, SATURDAY PAPER
'Blistering . . . propulsive, addictive.' JOE RUBBO, READINGS
'Electrifying, sobering, grimly compelling . . . Juice is an act of hope, a belief in persuasion, in the power of stories.' JULIA BAIRD, ABC ONLINE
'Winton powerfully captures the cumulative damage of combat and betrayal, writing movingly about the way it isolates the protagonist.' JAMES BRADLEY, THE SPECTATOR
'Chilling.' THE AGE
'Some of the most high-octane thriller writing I've come across.' LUKE KENNARD, THE TELEGRAPH (UK)
'Thrilling . . . utterly absorbing.' CLAIRE ADAM, IRISH TIMES
'A profound as well as an enthralling novel.' AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW
'Instant classic . . . in a class of its own.' AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY
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- David
- 01-11-2024
Winton at his best
In this novel Winton tackles the ultimate question as to the puzzle of what it means to be human. What happens when our world collapses around us. He asks the question as to how we should react under adverse circumstances and how we should deal with the fragility of life on our planet. How do we continue when the world as we know it collapses into violence and disharmony?
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- beanie
- 12-11-2024
Good grief.
I might go and reread The Road. To cheer myself up.
Juice, I think, is much more realistic. The future is grim.
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- The McBeans
- 03-11-2024
Grim and tedious
Winton writes beautifully and it is the quality of his phrase-making that stands out here. But fresh, interesting ideas are few and far between and the imagery is derivative. I finished it but too often it felt like a chore and the rewards weren’t enough to make me glad I’d made the effort.
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- Brett
- 18-12-2024
Outstanding! Both scary and believable.
A great story told in an engaging way that means you can’t put it down. The fact that the dystopian future is all too close certainly helps.
The narration is quite good although there are a few jarring pronunciations.
Highly recommended. Don’t miss it!
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- Rob Emery
- 21-11-2024
Dystopian future
A frightening vision of the future well-written. I found the description of Sims very interesting. I wish the narrator had investigated pronunciation of some words though.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-11-2024
Shockingly brilliant and superbly narrated!
Tim Winton weaves a page-turning story of a future that feels scarily close. The characters and the landscape are equally vivid and compelling. David Field's gravelly narration is the perfect fit for this modern day epic.
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- Annie Reeves
- 26-10-2024
Amazing, must read, Tim for world ruler
Lives this book. Love David Field, perfect choice BUT if only there was the attention paid by editors of spoken word as there is to written. Too many mispronunciations.
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- James Whelan
- 01-11-2024
Poorly read
I love the novel but the reading was frequently distracting, with mispronounced words - even quite common expressions.
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- Brad Pettitt
- 10-12-2024
A sober reminder of the choices before us.
Where The Road left off, Juice continues with a cleverly constructed and beautifully written story full of dread and hope.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-10-2024
An important topic and a riveting story.
An important book and a gripping yarn. As we stumble on into a rapidly heating world, this book certainly makes you wonder: why we aren’t doing more to avert the dystopian future of a 2C+ world? The billionaires are certainly fooling us or we’re fooling ourselves with our addiction to endless growth. Winton’s AI characters caught me by surprise. And after being immersed in the often desolate wastelands he describes, I look around me now with renewed appreciation of the beauty of the natural world.
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