Vic is in his early teens at this time, and though his initial experience is fairly typical for a boy moving to a new town, he quickly starts to suspect something is wrong. Angelus was once a whaling community, but the industry is in decline, as is the town. Vic Lang, his baby sister, and his parents, Bob and Carol, move to Angelus in the early 1970s when his father gets a job as a police officer. The stories are not presented chronologically, and Winton uses this to maximize the dramatic irony as he explores the decline of the town through the lens of the Lang family. Though each story can be read on its own, considering the work as a whole reveals thematic and narrative links that heighten the impact and meaning. (Mar.The stories in The Turning take place over several decades of life in and around Angelus, Western Australia, and trace the lives of various characters, most of whom are directly connected to Vic Lang or his family. The book is perhaps more suitable for YA readers than adults, but Winton pulls deftly on the heartstrings as he narrates this quiet tale. Abel, now a marine biologist, decides to abandon his international career to devote his life to the priceless natural domain where Blueback continues to swim-and to bond with another generation of Jacksons.
Though Abel's mother manages to drive the fisherman away, Abel learns that ""there was nothing in nature as cruel and savage as a greedy human being."" Over the years, unprincipled developers, pollution and other man-made disasters threaten the bay's pristine beauty before Abel's mother persuades legislators to declare the area a sanctuary. Danger arrives in the form of a vicious fisherman whose predatory methods despoil the bay and put Blueback at risk. When he's 10, he encounters a huge, magnificent blue grouper he names Blueback, a fish legendary for its cleverness and daring. Abel Jackson lives in isolated area of Australia between a national park and the sea, where he helps his mother dive for abalone his father is dead. Though the language is lyrical, Winton pares it down, deliberately simplifying his prose in the service of a clearly articulated call for ecological responsibility. This thin volume doesn't aspire to the mature complexity of the talented Australian author's The Rider.
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