Minimum of Two

ISBN 978-1-86478-086-4

The smartstudy® English guide to Minimum of Two comprehensively analyses Tim Winton’s beautiful collection of short stories. Winton’s characters are ordinary people who struggle to overcome the pressures of everyday life. They threaten to succumb to mediocrity and despair, but often find renewal in each other and their surroundings – that unique and ferocious Australian landscape that few writers depict as powerfully as Tim Winton.

Key Features:

• notes about the author/director/poet/playwright
• an overview of the historical and cultural context
• chapter/scene/story summaries
• character profiles
• analysis of themes and genres
• critical perspectives of the text
• key quotations
• focus questions in each section
• marginal notes explaining key passages, ideas, terms and characters
• a guide to planning and writing an essay
• a sample essay with annotations
• further exam-style essay questions
• a bibliography and further reading section

$16.95

(GST Inc.)