{"id":4314,"date":"2020-07-14T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T05:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.sl.nsw.gov.au\/shop\/boy-behind-the-curtain\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T05:57:06","slug":"boy-behind-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/shop.sl.nsw.gov.au\/shop\/boy-behind-the-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Behind the Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton&#8217;s most intimate and revealing work yet. Along with <em>Island Home<\/em> and <em>Land&#8217;s Edge<\/em> (both also first published in paperback in 2017), it forms the remarkable culmination of Winton&#8217;s autobiographical trilogy, showing our finest novelist also to be one of our finest writers of non-fiction.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Being a copper&#8217;s son, I&#8217;ve always got one eye out for trouble. I can&#8217;t help it. But I don&#8217;t go looking for it anymore.&#8217;<\/em><br \/><em><br \/><\/em>In Tim Winton&#8217;s fiction, chaos shapes the lives of his characters. So too Winton&#8217;s own life. The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up <em>The Boy Behind the Curtain<\/em> take us behind the scenes, revealing the accidents, both serendipitous and traumatic, that have influenced his view of life and fuelled his distinctive artistic vision.<\/p>\n<p>By turns impassioned, funny, joyous, astonishing, this is Winton&#8217;s most personal book to date, an insight into the man who&#8217;s held us enthralled for three decades and helped us reshape our view of ourselves. Behind it all, from risk-taking youth to surprise-averse middle age, has been the crazy punt of staking everything on becoming a writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton&#8217;s most intimate and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4565,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[88,84],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Boy Behind the Curtain - Library Shop - State Library of NSW<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.sl.nsw.gov.au\/shop\/boy-behind-the-curtain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Boy Behind the Curtain - 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