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Author Winton, Tim, author

Title Breath / Tim Winton
Edition First edition
Published Camberwell , Vic. : Penguin Books, 2009
©2008

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Description 264 pages ; 20 cm
regular print
Contents "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." -- BOOK JACKET
Summary When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his partner - better than the parents - what happened and how. Thirty years before. that dead boy could have been him
Notes Previously published in hardback: 2008
Miles Franklin Literary Award winner, 2009
Subject Teenagers -- Australia -- Fiction.
Australian fiction -- 21st century.
Australian fiction.
Australian stories
Country life -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Emergency medical technicians -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Human behavior -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Suicide -- Fiction.
Surfers -- Fiction.
Surfing -- Australia -- Fiction.
Teenage boys -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Fiction.
Teenagers -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Young men -- Psychology -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
Genre/Form Fiction.
ISBN 9780143009580 (paperback)