Blueback

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