Breath by Tim Winton

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 was born in Perth in 1960. He has written novels, collections of stories, non-fiction and books for children. He is three times winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award, and has been twice-shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Riders (1995) and Dirt Music (2002).

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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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