3.5
Breath
ByPublisher Description
A
Notable Book of the Year
On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking teenage boys fall under the spell of a veteran big-wave surfer named Sando. Their mentor urges them into a regiment of danger and challenge, and the boys test themselves and each other on storm swells and over shark-haunted reefs. The boys give no thought to what they could lose, or to the demons that drive their mentor on into ever-greater danger. Venturing beyond all caution—in sports, relationships, and sex—each character approaches a point from which none of them will return undamaged.
"Stunning in the depth of its audacity . . . limitlessly beautiful prose." —
"A tender, incisive, sometimes brutal, and always moving coming-of-age novel . . . The prose is always astonishing, the descriptions of sea and weather especially vivid . . . The book seems as simple, and as vital, as the act of breathing itself." —
"Darkly exhilarating . . . a tautly gorgeous meditation on the inescapable human addiction to the monotony of drawing breath, 'whether you want to or not.'" —
"A coming-of-age novel written with Tim Winton's customary tenderness and vivid sense of place and psychological truth . . . This is his most forceful and perfect novel to date." —Colm Tóibín,
–bestselling author
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About Tim Winton
is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. He has published numerous books, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel,
, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for
,
and
) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for
and
). He lives in Western Australia.
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