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Item Details
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BREATH
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| By: |
Tim Winton |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0330455710 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330455718 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2008 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009
Winner of Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Awards: Best Australian
Winner of Age Book of the Year: Fiction 2008
Short-listed for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers'
Short-listed for NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for |
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