Juice evaluation: Tim Winton’s post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and sensible

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Within the post-collapse outback of Juice, individuals reside partly underground

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Juice
Tim Winton (Picador)

The newest novel by Tim Winton (twice shortlisted for the Booker prize) is Juice, and it begins in a deceptively acquainted, even clichéd style. A person and a younger woman in a futuristic, pimped-up automobile are crossing a post-apocalyptic Australian outback. Even in the actual world, the outback holds many risks for the unprepared. Winton’s fictional, far-future outback is so scorching and ruined that it’s barely survivable even for the extraordinarily skilled and well-prepared man on the wheel. And the woman…

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