![]() ![]() Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is "anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity." Even in the wild, Luther cannot escape it. Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music is a love story about people stifled by grief and regret a novel about the odds of breaking with the past and about the lure of music. Neither of them would call it love, but they can't stay away from each other no matter how dangerous it is, and out on White Point it is very dangerous. After Georgie encounters Fox, her tentative hold on conventional life is severed. But she's never fully settled into Jim's grand house on the water or into the inbred community with its history of violent secrets. Chance, or a kind of willed recklessness, has brought Georgie into the life and home of Jim Buckridge, the most prosperous fisherman in the area and a man who loathes poachers, Fox above all. ![]() ![]() One morning Fox is observed poaching by Georgie Jutland. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman, a shamateur. ![]()
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