- Title:
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Breath
- Written by:
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Tim Winton
- Published by:
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Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
- Published:
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September 01 2008
- Read by:
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Dan Wyllie
- Number of CDs / Tapes:
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1
- Duration:
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6 hours 20 minutes
- MP3 size:
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- Genre:
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Australian; General
- Available Date:
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September 01 2008
- ISBN:
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9781742015910
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781742015910
- BAB:
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MP3 080935;CD 080544
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About this book:
Shortlisted for the 2009 Premier's Awards.
Longlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.
One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books for 2008.
A new novel by Tim Winton - this is his first in seven years. Narrated by award-winning Australian actor, Dan Wyllie.
A major international publishing event for 2008.
Winner of The Age Book of the Year (Fiction) 2008.
Breath is Tim Winton at his finest: a beautiful, gripping, deeply moving novel about our need for excitement and to push ourselves to the limits; about the power of the sea; and how ordinary people live with tragedy.
"Winton's latest novel is both a hymn to the beauty of flying on water and a sober assessment of the costs of losing one's balance, in every sense of the word." - The New Yorker
‘Darkly exhilarating." - New York Times Book Review.
"This slender book packs an emotional wallop... Winton is well-known in Australia and should be here." - Publishers Weekly.
"Tim Winton's newest novel offers an irresistible taste of oceanic communion." - Los Angeles Times.
"Tender, incisive, sometimes brutal and always moving coming-of-age novel." - Seattle Times.
"Winton is pitch perfect in capturing (but not exploiting) adolescent angst, and he describes surfing and the sea so thrillingly that even non-swimmers will want to plunge right in." - Library Journal
Awards
AudioFile Magazine
Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award [2009]
Reviews
This aptly titled novel knocks the breath out of the listener as it recounts a youth's daredevil surfing exploits, evoking the fragile balance between life and death. Paramedic Bruce Pike looks back in this coming-of-age story of his thrill-seeking youth in 1970s Australia. He and his friend, Loonie, meet a charismatic surfing legend named Sando, who mentors them in the science and art of surfing, and drives them to more and more reckless behavior. Dan Wyllie delivers an easily understandable Australian accent and shifts subtly between tentative teen and jaded adult. Wyllie’s delivery of Winton’s vivid descriptions is mesmerizing, and he ably conveys the image of breath as a metaphor throughout the story. This compelling novel may entice the listener to seek out the well-known Australian author's many other works. A.W.
AudioFile Magazine [Feb 09]