The Boy Behind the Curtain
by Tim Winton
The Boy Behind the Curtain is a memoir by the Australian writer Tim Winton, first published by Penguin in 2016. It gathers 22 autobiographical pieces, 16 of them printed before, on his Western Australian boyhood, his policeman father's accident and the family's turn to church, and the natural world.
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- Penguin Random House, 2016
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- Penguin, 2016
The first edition of The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton was published by Penguin Random House in 2016. We track 2 editions.
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The first edition of The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton was published by Penguin Random House in 2016.
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We track 2 editions of The Boy Behind the Curtain, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
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