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Title	:	Breath
Author	:	Tim Winton
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 218 pages
Published	:	May 27th 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Contemporary. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Literary Fiction. Book Club. Literature

Breath

Tim Winton

Hardcover | Pages: 218 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 16571 Users | 1379 Reviews

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Tim Winton is Australia’s best-loved novelist. His new work, Breath, is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one’s limits against nature, finding like-minded souls, and discovering just how far one breath will take you. It’s a story of extremes—extreme sports and extreme emotions.

On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrillseeking and barely adolescent boys fall into the enigmatic thrall of veteran big-wave surfer Sando. Together they form an odd but elite trio. The grown man initiates the boys into a kind of Spartan ethos, a regimen of risk and challenge, where they test themselves in storm swells on remote and shark-infested reefs, pushing each other to the edges of endurance, courage, and sanity. But where is all this heading? Why is their mentor’s past such forbidden territory? And what can explain his American wife’s peculiar behavior? Venturing beyond all limits—in relationships, in physical challenge, and in sexual behavior—there is a point where oblivion is the only outcome. Full of Winton’s lyrical genius for conveying physical sensation, Breath is a rich and atmospheric coming-of-age tale from one of world literature’s finest storytellers.

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Original Title:	Breath
ISBN:	0374116342 (ISBN13: 9780374116347)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Western Australia(Australia)
Literary Awards:	Miles Franklin Literary Award (2009), Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nominee for Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2009), Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Book of the Year & Book of the Year Fiction (2008), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Literary Fiction (2009)

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*Full disclosure: I am NOT a TW fan, and only read this because it is this month's choice for my book club* Didn't much like this book but I didn't dislike it enough to chuck it after my self-imposed "50 pages or it's gone" rule, hence the 2 stars. Some of the surfing description I found a bit boring and repetitive, and I really hated the "twist" which seemed to be shoved in there along with a few later comments in order to link back to the story's beginning. This book is not for me, but I

Brilliant! I loved every page of this book.We start with Bruce Pike, an older paramedic in WA, called out to a teenage adventure gone wrong. The scene brings back memories of his teenage years and we scroll back through his memories to his childhood and adolescence not far from the WA coast, in a small rural town.The scenario is simple but the storytelling is mesmerising and the writing is superb. I was totally immersed in this book even before we hit the coast and we travel along with Bruce as

At the heart of this brilliant coming of age story sits the destructive conflict between pure exaltation and asphyxiating defilement. The young mind should not, cannot deal with these two extremes when they are tied to the same time, place, practice and personalities. The result can only be an utter wreckage. Wintons prose evokes this tension between light and darkness to chilling effect. A wonderful, very disturbing novel.

Paramedic, Bruce Pike (Pikelet) and his partner have been called out to an emergency involving a teenager. Whilst attending to the teenager, Bruce now aged in his fifties thinks back to his own teenage years.Pikelet grew up in the 1970's in a mill town in Western Australia it is here that he becomes friends with Ivan Loon (Loonie).The pair spend their days surfing which is when they meet, Sando (Bill Sanderson) and his wife Eva. Sando takes them under his wing and teaches them more extreme

It makes me so sad to give this book only two stars. Winton is one of my favorite Australian writers. The first 3/4 of this book is brilliant - two young teenage boys learning to surf in Western Australia in the early 70's, pushing their limits in increasingly extreme ways in a time before extreme sports was part of the vernacular. The writing is so brilliant, so evocative and descriptive, that I wish I had tried to learn to surf. It's almost better than being there - I can see the waves, feel

Being afraid, said Sando. Proves youre alive and awake.Tim Wintons modern classic of coming-of-age in the seventies in Western Australia, is almost lyrical in its imagery of seascapes and landscapes, and emotional turmoil. The story follows teenager Bruce Pike (Pikelet) from adolescent bravado through to middle-age, risk-averse melancholy. With his best friend Loonie, the teenage Pike falls in with enigmatic adrenaline junkies Sando, riding the illusive wave, and his American wife Eva.The first

A poignant coming of age tale. Beautifully written, Tim Winton sets the bar high for other authors.