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Breath

3.90 ( 22,644 Ratings by Goodreads)
Breath

Breath

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3.90 (22,644 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 2 May, 2008
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Bruce Pike, or 'Pikelet', has lived all his short life in a tiny sawmilling town from where the thundering sea can be heard at night. He longs to be down there on the beach, amidst the pounding waves, but for some reason his parents forbid him. It's only when he befriends Loonie, the local wild boy, that he finally defies them. Intoxicated by the treacherous power of the sea and by their own youthful endurance, the two boys spurn all limits and rules, and fall into the company of adult mentors whose own addictions to risk take them to places they could never have imagined.Caught up in love and friendship and an erotic current he cannot resist, Pikelet faces challenges whose effects will far outlast his adolescence. "Breath" is the story of lost youth recollected: its attractions, its compulsions, its moments of heartbreak and of madness. A young man learns what it is to be extraordinary, how to push himself, mind and body, to the limit in terrible fear and exhilaration, and how to mask the emptiness of leaving such intensity - in love and in life - behind. Told with the immediacy and grace so characteristic of Tim Winton, "Breath" is a mesmeric novel by a writer at the height of his powers.
Prizes

Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 and Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Awards: Best Australian Book 2008 and Age Book of the Year: Fiction 2008. Shortlisted for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2009 and NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2009.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780330455718
ISBN10 0330455710
Number Of Pages 224
Item Weight 340 g
Product Dimensions 20 x 216 x 135 mm
Publisher / Reseller Picador
Format hardback
Edition Main Market
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Plunge into this novel and you, too, will be pulled under. -- The Miami Herald Stunning in the depth of its audacity . . . limitlessly beautiful prose. -- The Washington Post Book World Darkly exhilarating . . . a tautly gorgeous meditation on the inescapable human addiction to 'the monotony of drawing breath, ' whether you want to or not. -- The New York Times Book Review Both a hymn to the beauty of flying on water and a sober assessment of the costs of losing one's balance, in every sense of the word. -- The New Yorker

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Author's Bio

Tim Winton was born in Perth in 1960. He is the author of fifteen books, including novels, a collection of stories, non-fiction and books for children. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, for The Riders (1995) and Dirt Music (2002).

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