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{{short description|1984 novel by Tim Winton}}
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| name          = Shallows
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| image         = File:Shallows.jpg
| caption       = First edition
| author        = [[Tim Winton]]
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| country       = Australia
| language      = English
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| publisher     = [[Allen & Unwin]], Australia
| release_date  = 1984
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| media_type    = [[Paperback]]
| pages         = 235
| isbn          = 0-86861-793-8
| oclc          = 29006597
| preceded_by   = [[An Open Swimmer]]
| followed_by   = [[That Eye, The Sky]]
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'''''Shallows''''' (1984) is a novel by Australian author [[Tim Winton]]. It won the 1984 [[Miles Franklin Award]], and was the 1985 joint winner of Western Australian Premier's Book Award - Fiction.

[[Carolyn See]] called it "a dark masterpiece that ranks with ''[[Moby-Dick]]''".<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062604164.html "Young Men and the Sea"], [[Carolyn See]], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', June 27, 2008; Page C05</ref>

==Story outline==

The novel is set in 1978 in the fictional town of Angelus, [[Western Australia]].  The town is the last remaining remnant of [[Whaling in Australia|Australia's whaling industry]] and the novel details the conflicts that arise as a group of outsiders, intent on closing down the whaling industry, come to town.

==Critical reception==

[[Marian Eldridge]] in ''[[The Canberra Times]]'' was impressed with the work: "It is a book resonant with meanings. On the surface it looks at a contemporary situation, a year-old relationship under strain as one partner becomes an active conservationist and the other an uncommitted, embarrassed observer.  Whatever one decides the novel is saying, ''Shallows'' is a satisfying book."<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122502149 "'Shallows' complex, disturbing" by Marian Eldridge, ''The Canberra Times'', 9 March 1985, p16]</ref>

== Awards ==
* 1984 [[Miles Franklin Award]].<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127010139 "Franklin award to Winton", ''The Canberra Times'', 15 May 1985, p24]</ref>
* 1985 Joint Winner Western Australian Premier's Book Award - Fiction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.booktopia.com.au/tim-winton/author46.html|title=Tim Winton Author Bio|last=|first=|date=|website=Booktopia|publisher=|access-date=19 January 2017}}</ref>

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[[Category:1984 Australian novels]]
[[Category:Books about whaling]]
[[Category:Environmental fiction books]]
[[Category:Miles Franklin Award–winning works]]
[[Category:Novels by Tim Winton]]


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