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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Minimum of Two
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Tim Winton's characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves. (Source: LibrariesAustralia)

Notes

  • Dedication: These belong to Jesse and Denise: my blood, my water.
  • One and one make one/and one/and one and one make one . . . - Playground chant

Contents

* Contents derived from the Fitzroy, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:McPhee Gribble , 1987 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Forest Winter, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 1-9)
No Memory Comes, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 11-21)
Gravity, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 23-32)
Swimming to Salvation The Water Was Dark and It Went Forever Down, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 33-39)
Nilsam's Friend, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 41-46)
Minimum of Two, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 47-63)
Distant Lands, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 65-71)
Laps, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 73-87)
Bay of Angels, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 89-93)
The Strong One, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 95-104)
Holding (for Derek), Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 105-116)
More, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 117-131)
Death Belongs to the Dead, His Father Told Him, and Sadness to the Sad, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 133-138)
Blood and Water, Tim Winton , single work short story (p. 139-153)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fitzroy, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: McPhee Gribble , 1987 .
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      Extent: 153p.
      Reprinted: 1990 , 1993 , 1996 , 1998
      ISBN: 014010268X
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Weidenfeld and Nicolson ,       1988 .
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      Extent: 153p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 10 March 1988
      ISBN: 0297793101
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Atheneum ,       1988 .
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      Extent: 153p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 01 April 1988
      ISBN: 068911978X
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Blood and Water : Stories Tim Winton , London : Picador , 1993 Z309483 1993 selected work short story London : Picador , 1993 pg. [149]-266
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Picador ,       2003 .
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      Extent: 128p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 01 November 2009
      ISBN: 0330412620
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2007 .
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      Extent: 153p.p.
      ISBN: 9780140273991, 0140273999
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Picador ,       2011 .
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      Extent: 168p.p.
      ISBN: 9780330526753, 0330526758
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  • Large print.
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Works about this Work

'More Blokes, More Bloody Water!' : Tim Winton's Breath Salhia Ben-Messahel , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 13-17) 'In Tim Winton's Short Story, "Blood and Water," from the celebrated collection Minimum of Two (1987), the narrator experiences the fear and joy of birth, associating birth with the sacred and the ordeal baby Sam Nilsam has to undergo in order to heave his first breath and connect with the outside world through a flow of excrement, blood, water and suffering. Breath, Winton's most recently published novel and winner of the Miles Franklin Award, suggests some of these ideas in the depiction of a boy's discovery and experience of the world of surf and surfers on the Western Australian coast. The novel encapsulates some of Winton's major concerns: adolescence and manhood, place and the environment, life in Western Australia, identity, culture and politics. It raises questions about eco-philosophical nature, issues of identity and place, all the more as it was published in the same year as newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations, a highly symbolic speech which marked the nation's desire to move forward, beyond colonization, urging Australians to build a new history resulting from both an ending (the recognition of past injustices) and a beginning (the desire to unite and embrace the multicultural ideal).' (Author's introduction)
y separately published work icon Mind the Country : Tim Winton's Fiction Salhia Ben-Messahel , Crawley : University of Western Australia , 2006 Z1286107 2006 single work criticism
y separately published work icon Tim Winton's Minimum of Two Robert Beardwood , Kate Macdonell , Cheltenham : 2004 6896493 2004 single work criticism

'Insight Text Guide – Minimum of Two is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Tim Winton's short stories contains detailed character and chapter analysis, and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.' (Publisher's blurb)
That Eye, the Past: History and Tim Winton's Fiction Ffion Murphy , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Tim Winton 1993; (p. 73-86)
Childhood in Tim Winton's Fiction Brian Matthews , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Tim Winton 1993; (p. 59-71)
[Review] Minimum of Two Edmund Campion , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , June vol. 2 no. 6 1987; (p. 14)
— Review of Minimum of Two Tim Winton , 1987 selected work short story
Improving on Ernest Peter Goldsworthy , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , April no. 37 1987; (p. 22)
— Review of Minimum of Two Tim Winton , 1987 selected work short story
Penguins New and Revisited Reba Gostand , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , June vol. 7 no. 2 1988; (p. 57-58)
— Review of The Well Dressed Explorer Thea Astley , 1962 single work novel ; Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , 1985 selected work short story ; That Eye, the Sky Tim Winton , 1986 single work novel ; Minimum of Two Tim Winton , 1987 selected work short story ; Testostero David Foster , 1987 single work novel ; The Invaluable Mystery Lesbia Harford , 1987 single work novel ; Holden's Performance Murray Bail , 1987 single work novel
Surf and Paradise David Parker , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Phoenix Review , Summer 1987/8 no. 2 1987; (p. 110-112)
— Review of Julia Paradise Rod Jones , 1986 single work novel ; Minimum of Two Tim Winton , 1987 selected work short story
Ebb and Flow of Life and Death Katharine England , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 March 1987; (p. 3)
— Review of Minimum of Two Tim Winton , 1987 selected work short story
y separately published work icon Mind the Country : Tim Winton's Fiction Salhia Ben-Messahel , Crawley : University of Western Australia , 2006 Z1286107 2006 single work criticism
'More Blokes, More Bloody Water!' : Tim Winton's Breath Salhia Ben-Messahel , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 13-17) 'In Tim Winton's Short Story, "Blood and Water," from the celebrated collection Minimum of Two (1987), the narrator experiences the fear and joy of birth, associating birth with the sacred and the ordeal baby Sam Nilsam has to undergo in order to heave his first breath and connect with the outside world through a flow of excrement, blood, water and suffering. Breath, Winton's most recently published novel and winner of the Miles Franklin Award, suggests some of these ideas in the depiction of a boy's discovery and experience of the world of surf and surfers on the Western Australian coast. The novel encapsulates some of Winton's major concerns: adolescence and manhood, place and the environment, life in Western Australia, identity, culture and politics. It raises questions about eco-philosophical nature, issues of identity and place, all the more as it was published in the same year as newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations, a highly symbolic speech which marked the nation's desire to move forward, beyond colonization, urging Australians to build a new history resulting from both an ending (the recognition of past injustices) and a beginning (the desire to unite and embrace the multicultural ideal).' (Author's introduction)
The Young Man and the Sea Colin Mackay (interviewer), 1987 single work interview
Young Winton For Real Martin Flanagan (interviewer), 1987 single work biography interview criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 21 March 1987; (p. 13)
On the Verge : Place in the Early Fiction of Tim Winton Beth Watzke , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Tim Winton 1993; (p. 15-28)
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Awards

1988 winner Western Australia Week Literary Award — Prose Fiction
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