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Breath

By: Tim Winton
Narrated by: Troy Planet
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Summary
 Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and now a major film.

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his colleague, better than the kid's parents, what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. A relentlessly gripping and deeply moving novel about the damage you do to yourself when you're young and think you're immortal.

“An absorbing, powerful and deeply beautiful novel, a meditation on surfing which becomes a rumination about the very stuff of existence””
THE OBSERVER

“This brilliant book may well turn out to be the finest thing that Winton has done”
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

“It's unlikely Winton has ever written as well as he writes in Breath . . . Its seeming simplicity is deceptive, for beneath its pared-back surfaces lies all the steel of a major novelist operating at full throttle in a territory he has spent 25 years making his own.”
THE AGE

“Breath is about moving out of your depth, getting in over your head, having your soul damaged beyond repair . . . But against all this pointless sorrow, there remains the evanescent beauty of the world, and Winton matches that with limitlessly beautiful prose”
WASHINGTON POST©2008 Tim Winton (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd Coming of Age Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Water Sports
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a claassic coming of age story infused wirh the Australian ocean and the struggle to break free of adrenaline based addiction.

short and beautifully descriptive.

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great story, excellent narrator that is easy to listen to. Listened to in 1 weekend.

Excellent

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One of the best books I’ve read. As a surfer a lot of his younger years in the water really resonated. Surfer or not, this book is well worth the read.

Cracker!

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Such a masterful piece of writing that brings the waves, the scenery, the feelings, the excitement straight to the listener, plus I love hearing all of the Aussie vernacular that makes Australia home.

extreme goodness

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I don't know how he does it. I am a long time fan of Tim Winton and re-read/listen to my favourites. His turn of phrase is masterful. I love in this book how he brilliantly returns to the memories and emotions of youth. His words literally paint a picture before your eyes.

As usual Brilliant

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