Breath by Tim Winton
Bruce Pike can hear the sea at night and longs to go to the shore. When he befriends Loonie, his small town's wild boy, that dream is realized. Together, intoxicated by the treacherous power of the waves and by the immortality of youth, the two boys defy all limits and rules. Pikelet learns what it is to be extraordinary, feels exhilaration for the very first time, and -- caught up in love and friendship and an erotic current he cannot resist -- he understands the true meaning of fear. These are experiences that will far outlast his adolescence. How, then, to mask the emptiness of leaving such intensity behind? 'An absorbing, powerful and deeply beautiful novel' Observer 'A love letter to the sea and a moving coming-of-age story ...Rapturous' Sunday Telegraph 'Breath has the sensibility and reach of an epic' Scotland on Sunday 'Full of fizz and a vital poetry of sun, sand, sea and air' Independent on Sunday 'Breath has the urgent clarity of a story that needed to be told' Guardian
Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). In 2023 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to environmental advocacy. He lives in Western Australia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330455725 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330455729 |
| Title | Breath |
| Author | Tim Winton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2009-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009, Winner of Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Awards: Best Australian Book 2008, Winner of Age Book of the Year: Fiction 2008, Short-listed for NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2009, Short-listed for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2009 |
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