Minimum of Two

The stories in Tim Winton’s inspired Minimum of Two make the ordinary extraordinary.

Tim Winton’s characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves.

“Like Hemingway, Winton writes prose in which you can hear the thumping of the heart of the long-distance swimmer, o…