Only when he meets ex-priest Fintan MacGillis, living alone on the barren salt plains of Western Australia, does he sense the possibility of another way to live, a glimpse of humanity and decency. Jaxie’s mother has died from cancer and, when his father dies in a gruesome way, the damaged adolescent starts walking north, surviving for a time on his own. Why should men have to apologise for writing about men? He is the “fruit of misogyny”, says Winton. Jaxie is profane, casually sexist and racist, and he bullies kids at school. Every man in Jaxie’s life has modelled a deformed version of masculinity its violence, self-hatred, harshness, and its contempt for women. His father – “Captain Wankbag” as Jaxie calls him – is physically and verbally violent towards the boy and his mother. His antihero is Jaxie Clackton, barely 15, raised amid violence and indifference in a small town in Western Australia. “I wrote the book the same way I write all the books: just for play, to find out, to make a story and as an excuse to write about landscapes that I love and the people who come out of those landscapes.”
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“I didn’t write the book as a vehicle to talk about it,” he says. Winton decided to give the tour, called Tender Hearts, Sons of Brutes, because he knew The Shepherd’s Hut was being published in the middle of the #MeToo moment, a cultural upheaval that is throwing up deep questions about gender relations. He’s in company, he says, so he’s wearing shoes.īut he has done something he has never done before and completed a 10-city tour, where people paid up to $50 (£28) to hear him talk about an issue that The Shepherd’s Hut raises, even though Winton loathes worthy-cause writing: the toxicity of patriarchy, not only for women but for men and boys.
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At 57, he’s recognisably the same Winton, with his straggly surf-bleached hair, his loose jeans and T-shirt.
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“You’re the only thing that’s standing between me and freedom,” he says with a smile, describing himself as a horse in a paddock waiting to go home: “Any fence I can’t jump I’m just going to run through.”įor the last couple of months, Winton has being venturing out of his domestic bliss and he has caused a fuss.