Like Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Tim Winton's Blueback is a tale of one individual's search for meaning through a relationship with sea. Abel Jackson has lived by the sea ever since he can remember. Out diving one day with his mother, he encounters and befriends a Blueback, a large, blue fish. Winton called this novel a contemporary fable, and there is certainly a clear and obvious moral with a positive answer to the question of how we live in the modern world with our morality and respect for the encironment intact. This is a lovely, and easy to read novel which will appeal to children of all ages, as well as adults.
Blueback
Tim Winton
South Melbourne, Macmillian, 1997
Blueback
Tim Winton
South Melbourne, Macmillian, 1997